Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? / Edition 1

by Peter Juviler, Carrie Gustafson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765602626
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/1998
Series:	Columbia University Seminars Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Countering the mainstream debate between religious freedom and the imposition of secular notions of human rights, contributors from various religious traditions explore the impact of religion itself on human rights. Among the topics they take up are environmental rights, the rights of women in India and Iran and within Orthodox Judaism, the global imposition of criminal justice, and the pressure in Latin American to democratize the Catholic Church. Six of the seven essays are followed by lengthy responses. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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