Young incorporated The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a legal entity, and initially governed both the church and the state as a theocratic leader.

Historically, some theocratic Islamic states known as imamates have been led by imams as head of state, such as in what is now Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.

During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile ; in the Diasporas, they have been in contact with and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment ( see Haskalah ) and the rise of nationalism, which would bear fruit in the form of a Jewish state in the Levant.

The papal legate Daimbert of Pisa convinced Godfrey to hand over Jerusalem to him as Latin Patriarch, with the intention to set up a theocratic state directly under papal control.

The Kingdom of Nri was a religio-polity, a sort of theocratic state, that developed in the central heartland of the Igbo region.

The Church of England of the Interregnum was run on presbyterian lines, but never became a national presbyterian church such as existed in Scotland, and England was not the theocratic state which leading Puritans had called for as " godly rule ".

From the perspective of the theocratic government, " God himself is recognized as the head " of the state, hence the term theocracy, from the Greek " rule of God ", a term used by Josephus for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

The central claim of Kahanism is that the vast majority of the Arabs of Israel are now, and will continue to be, enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and that a Jewish theocratic state, governed by Halakha, absent of a voting non-Jewish population and including Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, areas of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and even Iraq should be created.

Influenced by the ruin of ancient Rome and perhaps by his Byzantine mother, Otto III dreamed of restoration of the glory and power of the ancient Roman Empire, with himself at the head of a theocratic state.

During Ngawang Namgyal's rule, administration comprised a state monastic body with an elected head, the Je Khenpo ( lord abbot ), and a theocratic civil government headed by the Druk Desi ( regent of Bhutan, also known as Deb Raja in Western sources ).

A new theocratic state, subsequently called the " Lebou Republic " by the French, was established under the leadership of the Diop, a Muslim clerical family originally from Koki in Cayor.

In Jerusalem Baldwin was opposed by his old enemy Tancred, as well as the new patriarch, Dagobert of Pisa, who would have preferred to set up a theocratic state while Godfrey was still alive.

His idea was based on the presumption that Pakistan, containing Sikh-inhabitated territories, would be formed as an Islamic theocratic state one day, and it would be hostile to the Sikhism.

It was imagined as a theocratic state led by the Maharaja of Patiala with the aid of a cabinet consisting of the representatives of other units.

Critics of his approach state that he was dictatorial and that he imposed a theocratic viewpoint on the broadcasting service.

In 1516, the secular prince Đurađ V Crnojević abdicated in favor of the Archbishop Vavil, who then formed Montenegro into a theocratic state under the rule of the prince-bishop ( vladika ) of Cetinje, a position transmitted from 1697 by the Petrović-Njegoš family of the Riđani clan, from uncle to nephew as the bishops were not allowed to marry.

Usman created a theocratic state with a stricter interpretation of Islam.

In Islam outside the Arab World, David Westerlund wrote: “ The jihad resulted in a federal theocratic state, with extensive autonomy for emirates, recognizing the spiritual authority of the caliph or the sultan of Sokoto .”

To those Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East and Africa who advocate it, an Islamic Republic is a state under a particular theocratic form of government.

Some specialists have argued otherwise and have attempted to characterize the North Korean state as corporatist ( Bruce Cumings ), race-based nationalist ( Brian Myers ), guerrillaist ( Wada Haruki ), monarchist ( Dae Sook-suh ), and theocratic ( Han S. Park, Christopher Hitchens ).

Dealing only with Christ's humanity, it dwells on his work as the founder and king of a theocratic state, and points out the effect which this society, his church, has had upon the standard and active practice of morality among men.

The revivalists deny that the same legal and political rules which applied to theocratic state of Ancient Israel should apply directly to modern societies which are no longer directly ruled by Israel's prophets, priests, and kings.

The movement, led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the " spokesperson " of God and a spirit medium, aims to overthrow Yoweri Museveni's Ugandan government and to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and Acholi tradition, according to its leaders.

Seku Amadu ( 1775-1844 ), a Fulani Muslim leader in West Africa, overthrew the ruling Fulani dynasty of the Macina region of what is now Mali and created a new theocratic state with its capital at Hamdallahi.

The Islamic Republican Party then fought to establish a theocratic government by velayat-e faqih.

While one could argue that Campanella was simply thinking of the conquest of the New World, it seems that this prophecy should be interpreted in the light of a work written shortly before The City of the Sun, The Monarchy in Spain, in which Campanella exposes his vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy.

By embracing the hostage-taking under the slogan " America can't do a thing ," Khomeini rallied support and deflected criticism from his controversial Islamic theocratic constitution, which was due for a referendum vote in less than one month.

The bureaucracy of the theocratic Ottoman empire couldn't even imagine that Muslims and Christians in one of the provinces of the vast Islamic polity would constitute a separated, supradenominational community.

Interpretations of the phrase range from the restoration of the nation of Israel to a world-wide kingdom, from a theocratic monarchy to an egalitarian utopia, and from an earthly kingdom to one in the afterlife.

Bonald was one of the leading writers of the theocratic or traditionalist school, which included de Maistre, Lamennais, Ballanche and baron Ferdinand d ' Eckstein.

Musaylimah was the theocratic lord of a sacred haram or enclave which, according to one report, he had set up in Yamamah before the prophet's hijrah.

The Byzantine Empire however was not theocratic since the patriarch answered to the emperor, not vice versa ; similarly in Tudor England the crown forced the church to break away from Rome so the royal ( and, especially later, parliamentary ) power could assume full control of the now Anglican hierarchy and confiscate most church property and income.

To Innocent III credit is given for the elaboration and the most complete and concrete issue of the theocratic doctrine, principle according to which the absolute rule on every earthly power is ascribed to the Pope.

In 1790 Chaumette reviewed the work of Saint-Martin, a French Catholic philosopher wishing for a theocratic society in which the most devout people would commission and guide the rest of the population.

Centuries later, the nobles of Tabot were overthrown by a six-year-old boy called the High Lord of Oceans, and established Tabot's current theocratic government in which the clergy of the Way holds most political power in the mountainous nation.

However, in Heinlein's later Future History Scudder succeeds in getting elected President and establishing a theocratic dictatorship dominating the U. S. for most of the 21st century.

In addition to its widespread resistance to the Navigation Acts, Massachusetts had a long history of virtually theocratic rule, and famously exhibited little tolerance for non-Puritans, including ( most importantly for the king ) supporters of the Church of England.

They are ruled by a theocratic monarch — the king's most powerful advisors are his high priests, and their gods are charged with deciding which prince may rule the kingdom.

Apokolips is ruled by Darkseid as its theocratic god / despot but he delegates most of the actual day to day ruling to his counsellor Desaad.

After the prophet Mohammed and his testator heir and successor Abu Bakr (+ 634 ) has established the theocratic rule of Islam on most of the sparsely populated Arabian peninsula, the armies of the next caliphs victoriously planted the green banner of the new religion in vast territories conquered on the neighboring giaur ( infidel ) empires of Persia ( extinguishing the Zoroastrian-dualist pagan-Sassanids ) and Byzantium ( the Christian remnant that still considered itself the continuation of the Roman Empire, but was thus reduced in Asia to Anatolia and completely swept out of Northern Africa, while it kept losing European territories to mainly Germanic and Slavonic invaders ).

The Jesuit reductions present a controversial chapter of the evangelisational history of the Americas, and are variously described as jungle utopias or as theocratic regimes of terror.