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The study of comparative religion is no longer a matter merely for those interested in religion - it is a matter of concern for everybody. For irrespective of whether one believes in God, religion is a major characteristic of identity. And in the post 9.11 world, every educated person is aware of how important it is to understand what others believe. This collection of essays by international scholars emerged from an intense and powerful dialogue at the University of Hong Kong about love in t

List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Democracy to Democratic Zionism -- Flawed Democracy, the Aristotelian Agricultural Democracy and the Hebrew Republic -- The Medieval Divine-Right Monarchy, an Anti-Hebrew Republic -- The Divine-Right Spanish Monarchy and the Conversos -- The Hebrew Republic as an Alternative to Habsburg Rule and the Emergence of Morteira, Barrios and Spinoza -- The Hebrew Republic and Democratic Zionism in the Writings of Morteira -- Morteira, Hobbes and the Democratic Zionism of Spinoza and Barrios -- Democratic Zionism and Twenty-First Century Zionism -- Appendix: Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses, Chapters One, Two, Ten and Eleven (Translation into English by Gregory B. Kaplan) -- Index.