Godism
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Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church has called for a new post-Communist, post-democratic ideology known as Godism. The term may be in use by other marginal religious groups as well. The word is a derivation of God and "ism" meaning a belief system. In other words, a belief system centered around God. Moon promotes Godism as a system of government preferable to communism and democracy; in a 1973 tract titled Master Speaks, Moon declared "[W]e must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world, so we cannot separate the political field from the religious."
Godism is also an English translation of Din-i-Ilahi, the syncretic beliefs espoused by the Mughal Emperor Akbar of India. Although it was proclaimed the official state religion, it never spread beyond the court of the Emperor and died with him in 1605.
