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Religious Legitimation of Power and the Concept of Theocracy

  • Potz M
Springer International Publishing, (2020), 63-85
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20169-2_3
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This chapter is devoted to theocracy, a type of a political system defined by its supernatural legitimation, not the rule of religious functionaries. It presents religion as a resource used to sanction political power on normative, institutional and personal...

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Potz, M. (2020). Religious Legitimation of Power and the Concept of Theocracy. In Political Science of Religion (pp. 63–85). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20169-2_3

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