Author: John Witte
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0199733449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the relationship between religion and human rights in seven major religious traditions, as well as key legal concepts, contemporary issues, and relationships among religion, state, and society in the areas of human rights and religious freedom.
Author: Joseph Runzo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1780746814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15 scholars, the book covers such key issues as women's rights, the role of international law, and responsibility for the environment. It also includes a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions", presented at the third Parliament of the World Religions.
Author: Leroy Rouner
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1988-09-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780268081577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0800697464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This wide-ranging reader combines some of the best and most valuable contemporary perspectives from leading and significant writers, teachers, and thinkers who together address critical challenges and opportunities for the world's religions in a post 9/11 world. Edited by Arvind Sharma and organized by topic, the essays in this reader consider broad questions such as, What influence does religion have on contemporary life? The thematic arrangement of topics includes diverse religious perspectives on: war, terror, peace, human rights, pluralism, diversity, gender, spirituality, the interreligious dialogue, international diplomacy and globalization.
Author: Nazila Ghanea-Hercock
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9004152547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Where can religions find sources of legitimacy for human rights? How do, and how should, religious leaders and communities respond to human rights as defined in modern International Law? When religious precepts contradict human rights standards - for example in relation to freedom of expression or in relation to punishments - which should trump the other, and why? Can human rights and religious teachings be interpreted in a manner which brings reconciliation closer? Do the modern concept and system of human rights undermine the very vision of society that religions aim to impart? Is a reference to God in the discussion of human rights misplaced? Do human fallibilities with respect to interpretation, judicial reasoning and the understanding of human oneness and dignity provide the key to the undeniable and sometimes devastating conflicts that have arisen between, and within, religions and the human rights movement? In this volume, academics and lawyers tackle these most difficult questions head-on, with candour and creativity, and the collection is rendered unique by the further contributions of a remarkable range of other professionals, including senior religious leaders and representatives, journalists, diplomats and civil servants, both national and international. Most notably, the contributors do not shy away from the boldest question of all - summed up in the book's title. The thoroughly edited and revised papers which make up this collection were originally prepared for a ground-breaking conference organised by the Clemens Nathan Research Centre, the University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Martinus Nijhoff/Brill.
Author: Daniel Philpott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0190908203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in forty-seven Muslim-majority countries today and offers an honest, clear-eyed answer to this urgent question. It is not, however, a simple answer. From a satellite view, the Muslim world looks unfree. But, Philpott shows, the truth is much more complex. Some one-fourth of Muslim-majority countries are in fact religiously free. Of the other countries, about forty percent are governed not by Islamists but by a hostile secularism imported from the West, while the other sixty percent are Islamist. The picture that emerges is both honest and hopeful. Yes, most Muslim-majority countries are lacking in religious freedom. But, Philpott argues, the Islamic tradition carries within it "seeds of freedom," and he offers guidance for how to cultivate those seeds in order to expand religious freedom in the Muslim world and the world at large. It is an urgent project. Religious freedom promotes goods like democracy and the advancement of women that are lacking in the Muslim-majority world and reduces ills like civil war, terrorism, and violence. Further, religious freedom is simply a matter of justice--not an exclusively Western value, but rather a universal right rooted in human nature. Its realization is critical to the aspirations of religious minorities and dissenters in Muslim countries, to Muslims living in non-Muslim countries or under secular dictatorships, and to relations between the West and the Muslim world. In this thoughtful book, Philpott seeks to establish a constructive middle ground in a fiery and long-lasting debate over Islam.
Author: Peter Jerome Haas
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering the world's major religions, these five volumes together provide a comprehensive examination of the way these faiths view human rights, from ancient times to the present.
Author: Nancy Hodes
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781887917001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proceedings of a conference held at Columbia University, October 7, 1994. Scholars, religionists, and peace activists discuss the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a global ethic, and common values in enabling the U.N. and the world's religions to support a humane global society. -- Provided by Publisher --