Format:
XVIII, 392 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780199733446
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9780199733453
,
0199733457
,
0199733449
Content:
"The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, restitution and reconciliation that a human rights regime needs to survive and flourish in any culture. With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and Human Rights provides authoritative and accessible assessments of the contributions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Indigenous religions to the development of the ideas and institutions of human rights. It also probes the major human rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities around the world today, and the main challenges that the world's religions will pose to the human rights regime in the future"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes index
,
Foreword
,
Introduction
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A Jewish theory of human rights
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Christianity and human rights
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Islam and human rights
,
Hinduism and human rights
,
Confucianism and human rights
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Buddhism and human rights
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Indigenous religion and human rights
,
Religion, human rights, and public reason: the role and limits of secular rationale
,
The phases and functions of freedom of conscience
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Religion and freedom of choice
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Religion and freedom of expression
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Religion, equality, and non-discrimination
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Religion and freedom of association
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The right to self-determination of religious communities
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Permissible limitations on the freedom of religion or belief
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The right to religious and moral freedom
,
Keeping faith: reconciling women's human rights and religion
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Religion and children's rights
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Religion and economic, social, and cultural rights
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Religion and environmental rights
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Religion, violence, and the right to peace
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Patterns of religion state relations
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Religion and human rights New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780190258269
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Law
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Theology
Keywords:
Religion
;
Menschenrecht
;
Religion
;
Menschenrecht
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Witte, John 1959-
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