Religious Nation State: Bahtiar Effendy and Islamic Political Thought

Political Parties in State and Nation

Research on party competition in the United States suffers because existing measures do not allow for an examination of national-level competition in the states. We view this as a significant oversight, and argue that party competition in the United States must be evaluated within a federal context. Toward that end, we develop measures of partisan electoral advantage and competition based on ma...

A Comparative Study on Political Theology in Western and Islamic Political Thought

The science of the word and theology considered as expertise in area of concern of Islam religion in which it discusses about religious principle, approach and worldview based on rational and narrative reasoning and answer to doubts that pose in this area; in Christianity and in general through all monotheism religions, it could be possible to use this method for religious reasoning, it could b...

Theology and Religious Thought

The Theory of Islamic Revolution in Shahid Sadr's Political Thought

Martyr Seyyed Muhammad Baqer Sadr is one of the scholars who have offered a relatively comprehensive theory regarding the nature, possibility, necessity and conditions of a revolution with the leadership of Islam and how this type of revolution can be implemented. His theory about revolution is not of post-revolutionary or analytic type but is pre-revolutionary and norm-based or guiding and den...

international nation-state building and political violence in new iraq

iraq is a country with many social cleavages, due to its ethnic and religious diversity, and because pf the inability of its political elite, this feature has always hindered resolving its problems. with the removal of the authoritarian regime of sadam hossein, ethnic and religious disputes escalated to their peak. the main question in this article is why has ethnic and sectarian violence exace...