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Religion and Human Rights
An Introduction
Edited by John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green
432 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-973344-6
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Paperback
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08 December 2011
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- The most comprehensive survey to date of religion and human rights, including both Western and Eastern traditions and the increasingly important category of indigenous religions
- Devotes attention to emerging ''third generation'' human rights as those pertaining to environmental sustainability, conflict transformation, and world peace
- Addresses cutting-edge issues in group rights, self-determination of religious communities, economic, social, and cultural rights and the relationship between religion, culture, and ethnicity
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.Readership: Scholars and to students of law, church history, political and legal history, theology, ethics, political theory, and church-state relations
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Edited by John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, and M. Christian Green, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University 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 Contributors:
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.;
Charles Howard Candler.;
R. Scott Appleby.;
John M. Regan.;
Joseph C.W. Chan.;
Carolyn Evans.;
Nazila Ghanea.;
M. Christian Green.;
T. Jeremy Gunn.;
Sallie B. King.;
Willis Jenkins.;
Margaret A. Farley.;
Natan Lerner.;
David Little.;
T.J. Dermot Dunphy.;
Werner F. Menski.;
Ronald Niezen.;
David Novak.;
Richard and Dorothy Schiff.;
Michael J. Perry.;
Robert W. Woodruff.;
Ingvill Thorson Plesner.;
Steven D. Smith.;
Madhavi Sunder.;
Paul M. Taylor.;
Johan D. van der Vyver, I.T. Cohen.;
John Witte, Jr.;
Nicholas P. Wolterstorff.;
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.
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"...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
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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
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