Transitions of Islam and Democracy: Thinking Political Theology
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 316
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the context of the strengthening of Islam that followed the shock waves of the Arab Spring, as well as the rise of Islamist movements all over the Middle East and European countries, the journal Religions is launching a Special Issue on the various configurations of the connection between religion and politics. For example, since 1979, Iran has presented a model of an ultimate and uncompromising combination of religion and politics; a decade later, in 1989, Sunni Algiers tried and succeeded to follow this path but only lasted a decade until 1999. With the fall of Saddam Hussein of Iraq in 2003 and the rise of Shiite forces, a dialectical struggle has arisen between forces that motivate religious participation (especially pro-Iranian forces but also local Shiite Iraqis) in politics and ones that seek to keep religion out of the political space.
We are honored to invite you to submit your research concerning religious issues and the transition between religion and democracy. Will Islam be able to coexist with democratic values? Will Islam be able to offer democratic values that do not exist in Western democracy? Moreover, of particular interest would be groundbreaking studies of religious writings and political–religious essays with the power to change political reality both in the country of origin and in different countries, but similar in terms of the corresponding religious values.
Prof. Dr. Ronen A. Cohen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- political Islam
- political thought
- Islam and democracy
- Islamic philosophy
- religion and state
- Muslim state
- Islamic constitution
- political rights
- political liberty
- anocracy
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