Human Rights And Religion

Author : Salama, Ibrahim,Wiener, Michael
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800377608

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Reconciling Religion and Human Rights by Salama, Ibrahim,Wiener, Michael Pdf

Projecting a global interdisciplinary vision, this insightful book develops a peer-to-peer learning methodology to facilitate reconciling religion and human rights, both in multilateral contexts and at the national level. Written by leading human rights practitioners, the book illuminates the tension zones between religion and rights, exploring how the ‘faith’ elements in both disciplines can create synergies for protecting equal human dignity.

Author : John Witte,M. Christian Green
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199733446

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Religion and Human Rights by John Witte,M. Christian Green Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between religion and human rights in seven major religious traditions, as well as key legal concepts, contemporary issues, and relationships among religion, state, and society in the areas of human rights and religious freedom.

Author : Nazila Ghanea-Hercock,Alan Andrew Stephens,Raphael Walden
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004152540

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Does God Believe in Human Rights? by Nazila Ghanea-Hercock,Alan Andrew Stephens,Raphael Walden Pdf

Where can religions find sources of legitimacy for human rights? How do, and how should, religious leaders and communities respond to human rights as defined in modern International Law? When religious precepts contradict human rights standards - for example in relation to freedom of expression or in relation to punishments - which should trump the other, and why? Can human rights and religious teachings be interpreted in a manner which brings reconciliation closer? Do the modern concept and system of human rights undermine the very vision of society that religions aim to impart? Is a reference to God in the discussion of human rights misplaced? Do human fallibilities with respect to interpretation, judicial reasoning and the understanding of human oneness and dignity provide the key to the undeniable and sometimes devastating conflicts that have arisen between, and within, religions and the human rights movement? In this volume, academics and lawyers tackle these most difficult questions head-on, with candour and creativity, and the collection is rendered unique by the further contributions of a remarkable range of other professionals, including senior religious leaders and representatives, journalists, diplomats and civil servants, both national and international. Most notably, the contributors do not shy away from the boldest question of all - summed up in the book's title. The thoroughly edited and revised papers which make up this collection were originally prepared for a ground-breaking conference organised by the Clemens Nathan Research Centre, the University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Martinus Nijhoff/Brill.

Author : Van der Vyver, J. D.,Johan David Van der Vyver,John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9041101772

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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective by Van der Vyver, J. D.,Johan David Van der Vyver,John Witte, Jr. Pdf

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Author : Manfred L. Pirner,Johannes Lähnemann,Heiner Bielefeldt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319393513

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Human Rights and Religion in Educational Contexts by Manfred L. Pirner,Johannes Lähnemann,Heiner Bielefeldt Pdf

What is the role of religion(s) in a human rights culture and in human rights education? How do human rights and religion relate in the context of public education? And what can religious education at public schools contribute to human rights education? These are the core questions addressed by this book. Stimulating deliberations, illuminating analyses and promising conceptual perspectives are offered by renowned experts from ten countries and diverse academic disciplines.

Author : Johannes Morsink
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826273611

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion by Johannes Morsink Pdf

Repulsed by evil Nazi practices and desiring to create a better world after the devastation of World War II, in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Because of the secular imprint of this text, it has faced a series of challenges from the world’s religions, both when it was crafted and in subsequent political and legal struggles. The book mixes philosophical, legal, and archival arguments to make the point that the language of human rights is a valid one to address the world’s disputes. It updates the rationale used by the early UN visionaries and makes it available to twenty-first-century believers and unbelievers alike. The book shows how the debates that informed the adoption of this pivotal normative international text can be used by scholars to make broad and important policy points.

Author : Richard Moon
Publisher : Essentials of Canadian Law
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552213641

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Freedom of Conscience and Religion by Richard Moon Pdf

When the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982, the first of its fundamental freedoms seemed less significant and less interesting than many of its other rights. However, the Salman Rushdie affair, the 9/11 attacks, and later the publication of the "Danish Cartoons" helped to move religion or religious difference to the forefront of public consciousness. These events seemed to confirm that religion, or at least particular religions, represented a threat to the values of liberal-democratic society. Religious freedom issues that may have been minor and easily resolved "on the ground" were increasingly seen through this lens of intractable conflict, and as opening the door to a broader threat to Western democracy. In Canada, anxiety about religion has been far less acute than in Europe or in the United States. Nevertheless, concern about the character of religion has shaped the public reaction to religious diversity and freedom. This has been most powerfully so in Quebec where, as in Europe, national identity remains a concern, and the political role of the Catholic church in the recent past has caused many to be wary of the visibility of religion in the public sphere. The book reviews the basic history of religious freedom in Canada; looks at state support for religion, including the place of religious practices and symbols in public institutions and the role of religious values in public decision making; the restriction or accommodation of religious practices by state action; religious restriction in particular contexts; state support for religious schools; freedom of religion in the context of the family, and in particular, the parent-child relationship; and freedom of conscience component of section 2(a)

Author : Kevin Vallier,Michael E. Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190666187

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Religious Exemptions by Kevin Vallier,Michael E. Weber Pdf

Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.

Author : Jeroen Temperman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004181489

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State-Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law by Jeroen Temperman Pdf

This book presents a human rights-based assessment of the various modes of state religion identification and of the various forms of state practice that characterize these different state religion models. This book makes a case for the recognition of a state duty to remain impartial with respect to religion or belief in all regards so as to comply with people s fundamental right to be governed, at all times, in a religiously neutral manner. As this book demonstrates through the various case studies there is increasing interest and concern at the manner in which questions concerning the enjoyment of the right to the freedom of religion or belief bear upon key questions concerning the governance of democratic society. Issues raised involve matters concerning employment, education, expression, association and, more generally, the interface between religion and political life. The existing literature often traces these concerns back to the need to consider the place of religion in contemporary society but leaves matters there. Another body of academic literature explores the theoretical dimensions of that relationship but fails to connect it to the practice of states in order to test out the propositions which are the product of these reflections. The great virtue of this work is that is seeks to unite these various enterprises and engages head on with the challenges which this produces The aim is to demonstrate and illustrate the key contention: that there is an emergent right to religiously neutral governance, and that this is incompatible with the continuation of systems which offer preference to particular forms of belief system religious or otherwise. A chief virtue of this book is that it works through the consequences of this claim in a fearless fashion, posing challenges for those states which continue to use their legal frameworks to offer support (directly or indirectly) for historical, dominant or favoured forms of religion or belief. It challenges received assumptions and, by driving the logic of contemporary human rights thinking to the foundations of state-religion relationships performs a valuable service for those engaging with this most difficult and timely of questions. Malcolm D. Evans, Professor of Public International Law, University of Bristol

Author : Javaid Rehman,Susan Carolyn Breau
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158269

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Religion, Human Rights and International Law by Javaid Rehman,Susan Carolyn Breau Pdf

Freedom of religion is a subject, which has throughout human history been a source of profound disagreements and conflict. In the modern era, religious-based intolerance continues to provide lacerative and tormenting concern to the possibility of congenial human relationships. As the present study examines, religions have been relied upon to perpetuate discrimination and inequalities, and to victimise minorities to the point of forcible assimilation and genocide. The study provides an overview of the complexities inherent in the freedom of religion within international law and an analysis of the cultural-religious relativist debate in contemporary human rights law. As many of the chapters examine, Islamic State practices have been a major source of concern. In the backdrop of the events of 11 September 2001, a considerable focus of this volume is upon the Muslim world, either through the emergent State practices and existing constitutional structures within Muslim majority States or through Islamic diasporic communities resident in Europe and North-America.

Author : Leroy S. Rouner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001459222

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Human Rights and the World's Religions by Leroy S. Rouner Pdf

Author : Nehal Bhuta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192540096

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Freedom of Religion, Secularism, and Human Rights by Nehal Bhuta Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion and human rights in legal, theoretical, historical and political perspective. It brings together chapters from leading scholars of human rights, law and religion, political theory, religious studies and history, and provides insights into the state of the debate about the relationship between these concepts. Comparative in orientation, its chapters draw on constitutional and political discourses and experience not only from Western Europe and the United States, but also from India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.

Author : John Witte, Jr,Frank S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139494113

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Christianity and Human Rights by John Witte, Jr,Frank S. Alexander Pdf

Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This collection of essays explores these Christian contributions to human rights through the perspectives of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and history, and Christian contributions to the special rights claims of women, children, nature and the environment. The authors also address the church's own problems and failings with maintaining human rights ideals. With contributions from leading scholars, including a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book provides an authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights in the past, and how Christianity and human rights continue to challenge each other in modern times.

Author : Marika McAdam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367886677

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Freedom from Religion and Human Rights Law by Marika McAdam Pdf

Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freedom to be religious. Despite the claimed universality of freedom of religion and belief contained in article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the key assertion made is that there is a hierarchy of religion and belief, with followers of major established religions enjoying high protection and low regulation at the top, and atheists and non-believers enduring high persecution and weaker protection at the bottom. The existence of this hierarchy is proven and critiqued through three case study chapters that respectively explore the extent to which non-religious and atheist rights-holders enjoy freedom from proselytism, freedom from hate and freedom from the religions of their parents.

Author : Irene Bloom,J. Paul Martin,Wayne Proudfoot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231104170

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Religious Diversity and Human Rights by Irene Bloom,J. Paul Martin,Wayne Proudfoot Pdf

Introduction - Irene Bloom