Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?

ISBN-13: 9780765602626 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str.

Juviler, Peter

Opis

Much has been written of about the issue religious freedom and church-state relations. This book, however, takes up another side of the question: what has been the impact of religion on human rights, and in particular on women's human rights and development? Representatives from various religious traditions address questions such as: the theological venus the secular validation of human rights; reconciling Islamic feminism with the religion of Islam; harmonizing confessional with liberationist directions within the Catholic Church; establishing inter-religious dialogue amidst the clamor of politicized Hindu-Moslem communal hostility; a human-centered vs a nature-centered environmentalism. Contributors explore different of these questions in a provocative and compelling debate.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Ambiguities of the Divine 2. Human Rights and Public Theology: The Basic Validation of Human Rights 3. Reply: Human Rights: Religious or Enlightened? 4. Human Environmental Rights and/or Biotic Rights 5. Reply: Rights of Creation to Rites of Revolution 6. Religion and Societal Change: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America 1. Reply: Religion and Societal Change: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America 8. Gandhi’s Philosophy of Satyagraha: Cautionary Notes for the International Penal Lobby 9. Reply: Secular Eschatologies and Class Interests of the Internationalized New Class 10. Speaking/Seeking a Common Language: Women, the Hindu Right, and Human Rights in India 11. Reply: Reconceptualizing the Relationships Between Religion, Women, Culture, and Human Rights 12. Feminism, Jewish Orthodoxy, and Human Rights: Strange Bedfellows? 13. Reply: Jewish Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Women’s Rights 14. Islamic Law and Human Rights: Conundrums and Equivocations

O autorze

Carrie Gustafson, Associate-in-Law and MIA/JSD candidate, Columbia Law School, is a practicing lawyer and recipient of a Mellon dissertation fellowship to study transitional justice issues at Columbia University. Peter Juviler, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University.