Religion and Human Rights
An Introduction
Published on 8. December 2011
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-19-973345-3 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of these religions can play a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Human rights depend upon the values of human communities to give them content, coherence, and concrete manifestation. Religions have constantly provided the sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, and restitution and reconciliation that a human rights regime needs to survive and flourish.
This volume provides authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and origins of "human rights, " and offers insight into the major human rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities. These include core issues of freedom of religious conscience, choice, exercise, expression, association, morality, and self-determination. They also include analysis of the roles of religious ideas and institutions in the cultivation and abridgement of rights of women, children, and minorities, and rights to peace, orderly development, and protection of nature and the environment.
With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and Human Rights offers a wealth of knowledge and analysis for understanding the contributions to human rights and the challenges faced by the world's religions.
This volume provides authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and origins of "human rights, " and offers insight into the major human rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities. These include core issues of freedom of religious conscience, choice, exercise, expression, association, morality, and self-determination. They also include analysis of the roles of religious ideas and institutions in the cultivation and abridgement of rights of women, children, and minorities, and rights to peace, orderly development, and protection of nature and the environment.
With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and Human Rights offers a wealth of knowledge and analysis for understanding the contributions to human rights and the challenges faced by the world's religions.
Reviews / Votes
...a strong case for the need for a continuing and steadily maintained culture of human rights and for the contribution which Christian belief and practice may still make to it. * Anthony Harvey, The Tablet *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 239 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-973345-3 (9780199733453)
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Persons
JW: Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University. MCG: Alonzo McDonald Family Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University
Editor
Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and ReligionJonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University
Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and ReligionSenior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Introduction - John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green, Emory University ; Part I: Human Rights and Religious Traditions ; 1. A Jewish Theory of Human Rights - David Novak ; 2. Christianity and Human Rights - Nicholas P. Wolterstorff ; 3. Islam and Human Rights: Framing and Reframing the Discourse - Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im ; 4. Hinduism and Human Rights - Werner Menski ; 5. Confucianism and Human Rights - Joseph Chan ; 6. Buddhism and Human Rights - Sallie B. King ; 7. Indigenous Religion and Human Rights - Ronald Niezen ; 8. Religion, Human Rights, and Public Reason: The Role and Limits of a Secular Rationale - David Little ; Part II: Religion and Modern Human Rights Issues ; 9. The Phases and Functions of Freedom of Conscience - Steven D. Smith ; 10. Religion and Freedom of Choice - Paul Taylor ; 11. Religion and Freedom of Expression - Carolyn Evans ; 12. Religion, Equality, and Non-Discrimination - Nazila Ghanea ; 13. Religion and Freedom of Association - Natan Lerner ; 14. The Right to Self-Determination of Religious Communities - Johan D. van der Vyver ; 15. Permissible Limitations on Religion - T. Jeremy Gunn ; 16. From Religious Freedom to Moral Freedom - Michael J. Perry ; 17. Keeping Faith: Reconciling Women's Human Rights and Religion - Madhavi Sunder ; 18. Religion and Children's Rights - Barbara Bennett Woodhouse ; 19. Religion and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights - Ingvill Thorson Plesner ; 20. Religion and Environmental Rights - Willis Jenkins ; 21. Religion, Violence, and the Right to Peace - R. Scott Appleby ; 22. Patterns of Religion State Relations - W. Cole Durham, Jr. ; Index