Talk:Neo-theocracy

Sources in GBooks apply this term to the Bush administration, to Pakistan under Zia, to Uganda under Amin, to something in the 1940s and 1950s, to something that Jaruzelski said he opposed the trend towards a peculiar form of, to a proposal (which may or may not have been realised) for something with respect to the Nigerian constitution in the 70s, to the Sangha (whatever that is), to something that Beuve did not quite want, to the Pesantren in Indonesia and to something I can't quite identify somehow connected to poetry. I am going to boldy redirect this page to theocracy, as the present content is uncited and I am not convinced it is anything more than an ordinary English word for a revival of, or a new type of, theocracy. James500 (talk) 22:15, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

"Neo theocratic" produces more results in GBooks, with the term being applied to the contents of a papal bull of the year 1302, to Henshaw Town after 1867, and to Iran after 1979. In other words, it is not clear where in time the line between "neo theocracy" and old theocracy is to be drawn. As for the claim, formerly in our article, that the term was coined after 2000, I found it attested in a book from 1955 (Stephen Spender, "Encounter", Martin Secker & Warburg, 1955, volume 5, page 73; "neo-theocratic" is attested in 1968 in John Dornberg, The Other Germany, Doubleday, 1968, page 57, where it seems to be applied, oddly enough, to the (presumably atheist) communist government of East Germany) and in several books from the 1970s to 1990s. James500 (talk) 23:47, 24 February 2016 (UTC)