theocracy

Taking a stand as a theologian and spokesman of theocracy, Thomas Aquinas argued on some important socioeconomic issues.

Theocracy is a form of government in which religious leaders hold political power.

In a theocracy, religious laws play a significant role in shaping government policies.

Theocracy can sometimes lead to conflicts between religious and secular authorities.

Theocracy is often associated with the fusion of religious and political power.

In a theocracy, the clergy may hold positions of both religious and political authority.

Critics argue that theocracy can restrict individual freedoms and rights.

Theocracy has been a controversial form of government throughout history.

Theocracy is often characterized by a close relationship between religion and governance.

Theocracy can be found in various forms in different parts of the world.

Now, the interesting thing about Gilead's theocracy is that it uses religion to oppress women.

Clearly one does not disagree with the divine rights of the leader of a theocracy.

They really take offense at the notion that they are advocating some kind of theocracy.

I mean admittedly here in the West we are fortunate enough that we don't live under a dictatorship, and we don't live under a theocracy.

But the fatwa had global consequences, making clear that the anti-blasphemy laws of a reactionary theocracy could be enforced by volunteer assassins anywhere on the planet.

The city's mayor, Ron Huldai, went so far as to tell a television interviewer in early December that the country was shifting " from a democracy to a theocracy."

As the protests have broadened to a general protest against Iran's strict Muslim theocracy, the reaction from Iran security forces has been more and more harsh.

Mr Gingeras sets out the broad context: the rise of Europe's colonising democracies-largely liberal at home but prone to heavy-handed imperialism abroad-at the expense of traditional theocracies, organised around fealty to a sovereign whose power was more than symbolic.

The notion of this strange culture pocket, hidden amongst unknown ranges, and ruled over by some vague kind of theocracy, interested him as a student of history, apart from the curious though perhaps related secrets of the lamasery.

Conversely, in large parts of England communities of Puritans had emerged, they were radical Protestants who based their beliefs on the theocracies which had grown up in cities like Geneva, under the minister Jean Calvin in the mid-sixteenth century.