Hangi din olursa olsun, din devletine, dine dayalı bir devlete "theocratic state" diyebiliriz. Hatta bazı yazarlar doğrudan "teokratik devlet" olarak kullanıyor.

Örnek:
""The people of Pakistan do not want a theocratic state and are strongly opposed to the Talibanisation of society," said Musharraf."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/642/in3.htm

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Teokrasi\'nin kısa ve güzel bir tarifi:
\"Theocracy is a form of government in which the governmental rulers are identical with the leaders of the dominant religion, and governmental policies are either identical with or strongly influenced by the principles of the majority religion. Typically, the government claims to rule on behalf of God or a higher power, as specified by the local religion.\"
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Theocracy

\"religious state\" terimi daha geniş anlamda kullanılıyor:
http://www.crosscurrents.org/Demerath.htm
linkinde \"secular state/politics\" - \"religious state/politics\" ayrımları üzerine oldukça ayrıntılı bir sunum var:
\"...Specifically, we want to sketch four types of situation implied at the intersection of two basic distinctions, one between the religious and the secular (ambiguously straddling the nonreligious and the religiously neutral, as we shall see), and the other between politics and the state. Thus, one can imagine religious politics with a religious state; secular politics and a secular state; secular politics and a religious state, and finally religious politics with a secular state.\"
\"...perhaps the clearest combination of a religious state with religious politics is found in Northern Ireland. There is no question that the state is perceived in Protestant terms, whether de jure as a result of its inclusion within Anglican Britain, or de facto because of the three-hundred-year political dominance of local Protestants.\"
\"...The conjunction of a religious state with secular politics can be either a symbolic anachronism or the result of an imposed religious orthodoxy that relies heavily on coercion and tolerates no opposition.\"

birkaç not:

İran\'daki yönetimin teokrasi olduğu ifade edilmekle beraber, monarşiyle yönetilen Suudi Arabistan\'daki devlet biçimi hakkında değişik ifadeler yaygın; bazıları buradaki yönetimi teokratik olarak tanımlıyor:
www.henrywaxman.house.gov/news_files/news_statements_saudi_...
www.treas.gov/press/releases/js507.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/410/debate.htm
www.bitsonline.net/eqbal/articles_by_eqbal_view.asp?id=44&c... (1984 yılında yazılmış bir makale)

Bazı kaynaklarda \"semi-theocratic state\" terimi de kullanılabiliyor:
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/mode/printe...
www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue18/Sulehria.htm

Elbette, bu alanda çok farklı yaklaşımlar var. Bu da onlardan bir tanesi:
\"...At the same time, they say, Indonesia is not a theocratic religious state; a theocratic state is a state governed by a prophet (like Israel ruled by the Kings David and Solomon or Medina headed by the Prophet Muhammed). All other countries, including Saudi Arabia and the Vatican, they say, cannot be considered real theocracies; essentially they are all secular states. In this sense Indonesia is a secular state, too...\"
http://www.abo.fi/comprel/temenos/temeno32/efimova.htm

Elbette, evrensel sözlüğe kazandırılan terimlerden \"neo-theocracy\" yi de unutmamak lazım:
\"...Will one day Iran become like England - a neo-theocracy in form
but a living democracy in substance? Is the Islamic Republic a new
but flawed stage in the evolution of islamocracy?...\"
www.islam-democracy.org/4th_Annual_Conference-Mazrui_addres...

Son olarak, aşağıdaki link, günümüz Yunanistan\'ında varolan bir
durumu anlatıyor:

\"The theocratic republic of Mount Athos, in Northern Greece, is celebrated for its breathtaking scenery and its ancient monasteries... It is a theocratic republic and part of the Greek state but enjoys a measure of autonomy, administered by its self-elected Holy Community from Karyes, the capital.\"
http://www.hetravel.com/greece_summary.php