Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?M.E. Sharpe, 1999 - 209 من الصفحات Much has been written about the issue of religious freedom and church-state relations. The contributors to this book, however, take up another side of the question: what has been the impact of religion on human rights. Representatives from various religious traditions address a broad range of topics, from environmental rights to the basic validation of human rights, to the rights of women in India and Iran and within Orthodox Judaism, to the global imposition of criminal justice, to pressures for democratization within the Catholic Church in Latin America. The six major essays, along with their accompanying "replies" answer questions and raise issues in a provocative and compelling debate. |
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Ambiguities of the Divine | 3 |
The Basic Validation | 12 |
Human Rights Religious or Enlightened? | 31 |
Rights of Creation to Rites of Revolution | 53 |
Religion and Societal Change The Struggle for Human | 81 |
Cautionary Notes | 88 |
Secular Eschatologies and Class Interests of | 107 |
Women the Hindu | 117 |
Reconceptualizing the Relationships Between Religion | 140 |
Jewish Orthodoxy Modernity and Womens Rights | 174 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 199 |
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