Dark Side of Separating Religious and Political Authority: Clerics, Commissars, and the Hierocratic Path to Genocide

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Brief Overview

A hierocratic path to genocide that I theorized is observable in Cambodia, Myanmar, the Soviet Union, Syria, and Ukraine, where militant Buddhist monks, Communist intelligentsia, Shiite Muslim and Orthodox Christian clergy played critical roles.

Author

• Sener Akturk, Koc University