Theocratic integralism (generic)

Peak influence recurrent

Core claim

Political authority is answerable to revealed truth, so the state's job is to order society toward that truth rather than to remain neutral between the ends its citizens happen to choose.

What it wants the state to do

Wants religious law with civil force, clerical review of legislation, confessional control of education and family law, and no legal standing for public dissent from doctrine. Economic arrangements are downstream and vary widely by confession.

Historical success case

Adherents point to periods of religiously ordered law as socially cohesive and low in certain crimes; the comparison is contested, and the cases are separated by centuries and confessions rather than forming a single record.

Historical failure mode

Where implemented at state scale in the modern era, the machinery for enforcing orthodoxy has been turned on internal dissent within a generation — morality policing, apostasy law and the suppression of the same confession's reformers.

Nearby traditions

Francoism, which uses religion as a pillar of order rather than as the source of authority; national conservatism, which wants a culturally Christian public square without clerical jurisdiction.

Common mix-up

A composite, not a real party. It is here as a corner of the space, because leaving the religious axis unanchored makes every actual religious tradition look more extreme than it is. Christian democracy sits far from this point on purpose.

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