Product Description: This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behave, by taking a rational choice approach in theory, by providing excellent and up to date empirical surveys by leading scholars of the economic performance of Iran and of Muslim countries in general, and by looking at the behavior of historical theocracies...read more

Offers an overview of theocracy as a political system, including a historical discussion of theocratic regimes throughout the world.

Product Description: In the tight frame of its first 25 years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional order. Founded as a theocracy, in which all human authority derived from God and was subordinated to divine command, by the end of the 1640s the colony had become an oligarchy, led by a few men who created their own authority and established the limits on their own almost unlimited power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What is behind the violence against abortion clinics, attacks on gays and lesbians and the growing power of the religious right? Frederick Clarkson makes it clear that beyond the bombers and assassins who sometimes make news, is a growing, if not well understood, movement that encompasses Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon and the Promise Keepers--the lead agency of the so-called Christian men's movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"In this major erudite and imaginative work, Buber produced a landmark in biblical scholarship that is of profound relevance in the history of religion." by National Jewish Monthly Buber scholars have long agreed that in this study of the political-communal image of kingship rich, imaginative historical scholarship combines with brilliant insight and style to make this work an outstanding contribution to Old Testament scholarship.