Challenging Theocracy : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics.

Cover -- Page i -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Theocracy in Ancient Political Thought and Practice -- 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 -- Part Two: Theocracy and Modern State Politics -- 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 -- Part Three: Responding to the Challenges of Theocracy -- 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.

Analyzing the relationship between religion and politics throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, as well as classical and medieval political philosophical sources, Challenging Theocracycritiques the contemporary formation of theocracy and the persistence of theocratic ideas around the world.

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