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Religion and Human Rights : An Introduction, Paperback / softback Book

Religion and Human Rights : An Introduction Paperback / softback

Edited by John, Jr. (Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Witte, M. Christian (Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Senior Fellow at Green

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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.

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