Religion, State and the United Nations: Value Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367874469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Anne Stensvold

Opis

This volume approaches the UN as a laboratory of religio-political value politics.

Spis treści

Part I RELIGION AT THE UNITED NATIONS

Chapter 1: Engaging on global issues in a UN setting: Religious actors

[Katherine Marshall]

Chapter 2: The United Alliance of Civilisations and improved global dialogue

[Jeffrey Haynes]

Chapter 3: Hate speech and holy prophets: Tracing the OIC's strategies to protect religion

[Marie Juul Petersen and Heini Skorini]

Chapter 4: Negotiating traditional values. The Russian Orthodox Church

[Vebjørn Horsfjord]

Chapter 5: Internal affairs? Assessing NGO engagement for religious freedom

[Helge Årsheim]

Chapter 6: Religion, state and symbol politic. The Catholic Church

[Anne Stensvold]

PART II RELIGION AND STATE

Chapter 7: Emerging international subjects. The Royal 'Peel' Commission, Palestine partition and religious difference

[Maria Birnbaum]

Chapter 8: Religious voices: American faith perspectives as an example

[Katherine Marshall]

Chapter 9: Dynamic perspectives on defamation of religion among Jewish NGOs

[Gabriel Levy and Miriam Kyselo]

Chapter 10: Human rights and the Tunisian constitution

[Ragnhild J. Zorgati]

Chapter 11: Norway, religion and the United Nations

[Ingrid Vik and Cecilie Endresen]

Concluding remarks

[Anne Stensvold]

O autorze

Anne Stensvold is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Oslo, Norway where she leads the Value Politics research group. She has written extensively on popular religion, Catholicism and political aspects of religion, and co-authored Lobbying for faith and family at the United Nations (2013). Her latest book is A history of pregnancy. From Original Sin to contemporary abortion debates. (Routlege 2015).