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Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Edited by Thomas Banchoff and Edited by Robert Wuthnow
368 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-534338-0
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Paperback
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12 May 2011
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- The first major survey of the religious politics of human rights
Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary context of globalization, these questions have a salient religious dimension. Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways, including: whether ''universal'' human rights are in fact an imposition of Christian understandings; whether democracy, the ''rule of the
people,'' is compatible with God's law; and whether international efforts to enforce human rights including religious freedom amount to an illicit imperialism. This book brings together leading specialists across disciplines for the first major survey of the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions. The authors take a bottom-up approach and focus particularly on hot-button issues like human rights in Islam, Falun Gong in China, and religion in the former Soviet Union. Each essay examines the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers.Readership: Students of
international relations and religions studies
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Edited by Thomas Banchoff, Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, and Edited by Robert Wuthnow, Andlinger Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University Contributors:
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf: associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at Qatar University; Thomas Banchoff: associate professor of government and director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University; Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer: research professor in the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European
Studies and the Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University; Paul Freston: professor and CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada; Yvonne Haddad: professor of the history of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University; Robert W. Hefner: professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University; Charles Keyes: professor emeritus of anthropology and international studies at the University of Washington; Pratap Bhanu Mehta: President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; David Ownby: associate professor of history at the Université de Montréal; Robert
Wuthnow: Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Princeton University
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1.: Introduction
Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow
2.: The International Human Rights Regime
Thomas Banchoff
Part I: Islam and the Global Politics of Human Rights
3.: Human Rights and Democracy in Islam: The Indonesian Case in Global Perspective
Robert W. Hefner
4.: Muslims, Human Rights and Women's Rights
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Part II: Three Regions: Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia
5.: Religious Pluralism, Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America
Paul Freston
6.: Gender Justice and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
7.: Buddhism, Human Rights, and Non-Buddhist Minorities
Charles Keyes
Part III: Four Key Countries: India, China, Russia and the US
8.: Hinduism and the Politics of Rights in India
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
9.: Religion, State Power, and Human Rights in China
David Ownby
10.: Religious Communities and Rights in the Russian Federation
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
11.: Human Rights, the Catholic Church, and the Death Penalty in the United States
Thomas Banchoff
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