Constitutional Theocracy / / Ran Hirschl.

In this ground-breaking book, renowned constitutional scholar Ran Hirschl describes “constitutional theocracy,” a new, hybrid form of government that has emerged from an overlapping of two parallel trends during the 20th century: the rise in political religion on the one hand and the spread of const...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 The Rise of Constitutional Theocracy
  • 2 Constitutional Theocracy in Context
  • 3 The Secularist Appeal of Constitutional Law and Courts
  • 4 Constitutionalism versus Theocracy
  • 5 Courts as Secularizing Agents in the Nontheocratic World
  • 6 Yin and Yang?
  • Conclusion: “Glocalization”?
  • Appendix: Cases and Laws Cited
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index