Rights, Religion and Reform: Enhancing Human Dignity Through Spiritual and Moral Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780700716487 / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str.

Chandra Muzaffar

Opis

This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics, the economy and society as a whole?

Spis treści

Part I. From Human Rights to Human Dignity 1. An Integrated Approach to Human Rights 2. Development and Democracy in Asia 3. Transforming Rights: Five Challenges for the Asia-Pacific 4. Judging Asia: Assessing Human Rights Credibility 5. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. Rethinking Human Rights: A Philsophical Debate Part II. The Essence of Religion 7. A Spiritual Vision of the Human Being 8. A Worldview for Environmental Salvation 9. The Soviet Union and the Denial of God 10. Religious Conflict in Asia 11. Religiosity on the Rampage: Spirituality in Slumber 12. Islam: Justice and Politics 13. Judiciary and Justice 14. Islamic Movements and Social Change 15. Islamisation of State and Society 16. Reflections on the Shariah 17. Hudud: Central to Islam? 18. Iqbal and the Challenge of Reform Part III. The Challenge of Reform 19. The Welfare State: The Quest for an Alternative 20. The Economic Crisis 21. Establishing a Fully Moral and Ethical Society 22. Civil Society in Malaysia 23. Accomodaiton and Acceptance of Non-Muslim Communities 24. Islam and Confucianism: Ethnic Relations in Malaysia 25. A Concluding Thought: the Remembrance of God

O autorze

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar is one of Asia's leading public intellectuals, and has written widely on politics, human rights and religion. A former university don, he has been a social activist for 30 years and is President of the International Movement for a Just World.