Faith And Human Rights

Author : John Witte
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199733449
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Human Rights written by John Witte and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Amesbury
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451408455
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Human Rights written by Richard Amesbury and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the idea of human rights is not exclusively religious, but that its realization in practice requires urgent action on the part of people of all faiths, and of none. Acknowledging the ambiguous moral legacy of their own tradition, Christianity, the authors draw on christological themes to draft blueprints for a culturally sensitive "theology of human rights."

Author : Salama, Ibrahim
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800377606
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Religion and Human Rights written by Salama, Ibrahim and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nazila Ghanea-Hercock
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004152547
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does God Believe in Human Rights? written by Nazila Ghanea-Hercock and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Witte, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494112
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Human Rights written by John Witte, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292774
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Human Rights written by Samuel Moyn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic Church and transatlantic Protestant circles dominated the public discussion of the new principles in what became the last European golden age for the Christian faith. At the same time, West European governments after World War II, particularly in the ascendant Christian Democratic parties, became more tolerant of public expressions of religious piety. Human rights rose to public prominence in the space opened up by these dual developments of the early Cold War. Moyn argues that human dignity became central to Christian political discourse as early as 1937. Pius XII's wartime Christmas addresses announced the basic idea of universal human rights as a principle of world, and not merely state, order. By focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, Moyn demonstrates how the language of human rights was separated from the secular heritage of the French Revolution and put to use by postwar democracies governed by Christian parties, which reinvented them to impose moral constraints on individuals, support conservative family structures, and preserve existing social hierarchies. The book ends with a provocative chapter that traces contemporary European struggles to assimilate Muslim immigrants to the continent's legacy of Christian human rights.

Author : Van der Vyver, J. D.
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789041101778
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective written by Van der Vyver, J. D. and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1996-02-09 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media. By James Finn.

Author : Kalliopi Chainoglou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317116615
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights written by Kalliopi Chainoglou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary collection interrogates the role of human rights in addressing past injustices. The volume draws on legal scholars, political scientists, anthropologists and political philosophers grappling with the weight of the memory of historical injustices arising from conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. It examines the role of human rights as legal doctrine, rhetoric and policy as developed by states, international organizations, regional groups and non-governmental bodies. The authors question whether faith in human rights is justified as balm to heal past injustice or whether such faith nourishes both victimhood and self-justification. These issues are explored through three discrete sections: moments of memory and injustice, addressing injustice; and questions of faith. In each of these sections, authors address the manner in which memory of past conflicts and injustice haunt our contemporary understanding of human rights. The volume questions whether the expectation that human rights law can deal with past injustice has undermined the development of an emancipatory politics of human rights for our current world.

Author : Heiner Bielefeldt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198703988
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Religion Or Belief written by Heiner Bielefeldt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freedom of Religious or Belief: An International Law Commentary is the first commentary to look comprehensively at the international provisions for the protection of freedom of religion or belief, considering how they are interpreted by various United Nations Special Procedures and Treaty Bodies." -- Back cover.

Author : Robert Traer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589018457
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith in Human Rights written by Robert Traer and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of the problem of a universal definition of human rights, Robert Traer argues that contemporary theological discourse contains an affirmation of faith that unites members of world religious traditions with secular humanists in a common struggle to establish human rights as the basis for human dignity. Scholars of religion, law, and comparative religious ethics, as well as human rights advocates will find it an invaluable guide.