Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?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. |
Contents
The Basic Validation of Human Rights | |
Human Rights Religious or Enlightened? | |
Rights of Creation to Rites of Revolution | |
The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America | |
Cautionary Notes for the International Penal | |
Secular Eschatologies and Class Interests of the Internationalized | |
Women the Hindu Right and Human | |
Reconceptualizing the Relationships Between Religion Women | |
Jewish Orthodoxy Modernity and Womens Rights | |
Conundrums and Equivocations | |
About the Editors and Contributors | |
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