Cultural Relativism In The Face Of The West

Author : B. Billet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137119136
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West written by B. Billet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billet examines the debate between the uniform application of universal human rights and cultural relativism. Billet outlines the foundations and evolution of both schools of thought. The book also examines case studies that involve either women or children and are typically viewed by the West as violations of fundamental human rights.

Author : Bret L. Billet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333753187
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West written by Bret L. Billet and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of universal human rights has been perhaps the most contentious concept of the 20th century. Originally presented as a response to the atrocities of the past and an attempt to stifle the potential ills of the future, the concept has been under heated assault by adherents to the concept of cultural relativism. The basic conflict between these two extreme perspectives lies with the degree to which either should be the primary consideration when dealing with the great diversity of peoples worldwide. While proponents of universal human rights believe that a fundamental group of human rights exist and can be applied uniformly throughout the world, cultural relativists are primarily concerned with protecting and understanding - usually in functionalist terms - the diversity of cultures worldwide.

Author : S. I. Strong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107179335
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Religious Liberties written by S. I. Strong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to law and religion.

Author : Sharon Wesoky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136711554
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization written by Sharon Wesoky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.

Author : Bassam Tibi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134013418
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam's Predicament with Modernity written by Bassam Tibi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved. Looking at modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author analyses issues such as law, knowledge and human rights.

Author : Fidèle Ingiyimbere
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319576216
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticating Human Rights written by Fidèle Ingiyimbere and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture. Thus, after elaborating and exposing these criticisms, the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, in order to see whether they can be addressed. Unfortunately, they are not. Therefore, having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postco lonial challenges, the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices. It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state, but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights. Confronted to the challenges, this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily, and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights, as well as the tension between universalism and relativism.

Author : Mojtaba Mahdavi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317008790
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards the Dignity of Difference? written by Mojtaba Mahdavi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History' and Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations.' The quest for genuine democracy and social justice and the backlash against the neoliberal order is a common theme in the global mass protests in the West and the East. This is no less than a discursive paradigm shift, a new beginning to the history, a move towards new alternatives to the status quo. This book is about difference and dialogue; it embraces The Dignity of Difference and promotes dialogue. However, it also demonstrates the limits of dialogue as a useful and universal approach for resolving conflicts, particularly in cases involving asymmetric and unequal power relations. The distinguished group of authors suggests in this volume that there is a 'third way' of addressing global tensions - one that rejects the extremes of both universalism and particularism. This third way is a radical call for an epistemic shift in our understanding of 'us-other' and 'good-evil', a radical approach toward accommodating difference as well as embracing the plural concept of 'the good'. The authors strengthen their alternative approach with a practical policy guide, by challenging existing policies that either exclude or assimilate other cultures, that wage the constructed 'global war on terror,' and that impose a western neo-liberal discourse on non-western societies. This important book will be essential reading for all those studying civilizations, globalization, foreign policy, peace and security studies, multiculturalism and ethnicity, regionalism, global governance and international political economy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symposium, Nation-building written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Rachels
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 0077147987
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Moral Philosophy 7e written by James Rachels and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, James Rachels and Stuart Rachels’ The Elements of Moral Philosophy introduces readers to major moral concepts and theories through eloquent explanations and compelling, thought-provoking discussions.

Author : Kehal, Harbhajan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591408776
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective written by Kehal, Harbhajan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the economic impacts of outsourcing and off shoring to the developing countries and developed countries and the short term and long term implications"--Provided by publisher.