Human Rights and Religion: A Reader

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"The relationship between religion and human rights is complex. The United Nations' 1948 Declaration of Human Rights arose from the quest to define basic human dignities in the face of extreme cultural and religious persecution. Religion as a cultural phenomenon continues to manifest itself as a force for social and political conflict, institutionalized violence, and repression. Yet religions also promote ideals of harmonious living with traditions that enrich contemporary understandings of international human rights with models of love, ...
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"The relationship between religion and human rights is complex. The United Nations' 1948 Declaration of Human Rights arose from the quest to define basic human dignities in the face of extreme cultural and religious persecution. Religion as a cultural phenomenon continues to manifest itself as a force for social and political conflict, institutionalized violence, and repression. Yet religions also promote ideals of harmonious living with traditions that enrich contemporary understandings of international human rights with models of love, universal respect, and justice." This book brings together an outstanding range of sources in a single volume to deal with these and related questions. With cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and reflections on future prospects, the volume includes critical case studies on human rights and the world's religions in a political context.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781902210957
  • Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
  • Publication date: 12/31/2002
  • Pages: 404

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
General Introduction 1
Pt. I General Issues 9
1 Religion 17
2 The United Nations 31
3 Religion and International Human Rights 44
Pt. II Cultural and Religious Traditions 75
4 Anti-Semitism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam 85
5 Theology and Human Rights 98
6 Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics 120
7 Islam, Governance and Democracy 141
8 A Constructive Framework for Discussing Confucianism and Human Rights 160
9 Are There Human Rights in Buddhism? 180
10 Religious Freedom and Human Rights in India 198
11 Gandhi's Philosophy 212
12 Returning to my Roots: African "Religions" and the State 226
Pt. III Regional Case Studies: Human Rights Watch and Survival 243
13 Muslim-Christian Conflict in Sudan 249
14 Afghanistan 262
15 China: The State Control of Religion 276
16 Politics by Other Means: Attacks on Christians in India 283
17 "We Have No Orders to Save You": Hindu-Muslim Violence in India 294
18 Orthodox Christian Intolerance in Georgia 301
19 Israel and the Palestinian Authority Territories 311
20 Indigenous and Minority Traditions: Case Studies from Survival 323
Pt. IV Global Prospects 341
21 Religious Freedom 345
22 International Justice and Just War Theory 357
23 The Proliferation of Rights: Moral Progress or Empty Rhetoric? 368
App International Documents and Further Reading/Research 390
General Index 393
Index of Articles, Charters and Conventions 403
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