1 Theocracy over Time

Is Theocracy Our Politics? Thoughts on William Baude's 'Is Originalism Our Law?'

Religion as Trust in Authority: Theocracy and Ecology in the United States

Theocracy and the Rule of Law: A Novel Josephan Doctrine and Its Modern Misconceptions

Returning to the roots of the notion of ‘‘theocracy’’ helps elucidate this much maligned and misunderstood concept. In popular modern discourse, this term is often used to censure fundamentalist religious leadership that undermines lawful values. Academic scholarship, which applies this label in a more neutral manner, likewise associates it with an absence of formal rules, what Martin Buber fam...

African Journal of Law and Criminology

This paper examined and discussed the sundry controv the nature, sources and interpretations of Islamic law. The study was engendered by the fact that differences in views and attitudes to these variables have contributed in no mean way to political and religious unrests in many parts of t Middle East where Islam has much stronghold. This paper considered it expedient to engage in the study so ...

‘As French as Wine’ – Sociological Indicators of Original Calvinism

The paper explores, identifies and analyzes the concrete sociological indicators of original Calvinism as the specifically French Protestant Reformation, as well-established in the historical literature yet overlooked or downplayed in much of the sociology of (Calvinist) religion and ideology. The paper classifies them into five specific sociological indicators or proofs of originally French Ca...