Challenging Theocracy : : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics / / David Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski, Herminio Meireles Teixeira.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2018
• HerausgeberIn: Koivukoski, Toivo,; Tabachnick, David,; Teixeira, Herminio Meireles,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century politics. Analyzing the relationship between religion and politics throughout the Middle East, Africa, and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Theocracy as Temptation: Empire and Mindfulness
• 2. The Confrontation between Classical Political Philosophy and the Gods of the City
• 3. Between Rationalism and Theocracy: Plato, the Mysteries, and F.W.J. Schelling's Analysis of the Modern State
• 4. The Place of Religion in Politics: On Analogous Gods and the Piety of the Unspoken
• 5. The Aristotelian Roots of Religious Governance Approaches
• 6. The Non-Theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)
• 7. Islamism in North Africa: From Cairo to Tunis
• 8. Theocratic Arguments in Judaism
• 9. Saving Miracles: Political Theology and Theocracy in the Schmitt-Benjamin Encounter
• 10. Theocracy's Challenge
• 11. The Impossibility of Theocracy: The Weakness of the Gods
• 12. Understanding Our Adversaries: Ancient vs. Modern Political Thought
• 13. Religion, Tolerance, and American Theocratic Politics: Lessons for the Contemporary Era
• 14. Shaftesbury's Characteristics and the Problem of Priestcraft
• Contributors
• Index