Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey Anthropocratic Republic【電子書籍】[ Christopher Houston ]

＜p＞In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy*.* In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic. This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the contrary, it argues．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る