The Changing Face Of Religion And Human Rights

Author : Clemens Nathan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047427610
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Religion and Human Rights written by Clemens Nathan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clemens N. Nathan has devoted a lifetime to the pursuit of Human Rights – to understanding and reflecting upon the concept of Human Rights; to participating in, and sometimes helping to create, organisations and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of Human Rights; to helping those who have been denied their Human Rights and to encouraging and supporting research into and scholarship on Human Rights. All this has been achieved by a man who has had no formal training in the field, but who has become a recognised expert through his extensive reading, through working with leading exponents, and by drawing upon his lively intellect, his wealth of culture and his knowledge of history, philosophy and religions. This volume, published under the auspices of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, offers insight into the challenging relationship between religion and human rights.

Author : Clemens Neumann Nathan
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 900417415X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Religion and Human Rights written by Clemens Neumann Nathan and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clemens N. Nathan has devoted a lifetime to the pursuit of Human Rights to understanding and reflecting upon the concept of Human Rights; to participating in, and sometimes helping to create, organisations and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of Human Rights; to helping those who have been denied their Human Rights and to encouraging and supporting research into and scholarship on Human Rights. All this has been achieved by a man who has had no formal training in the field, but who has become a recognised expert through his extensive reading, through working with leading exponents, and by drawing upon his lively intellect, his wealth of culture and his knowledge of history, philosophy and religions. This volume, published under the auspices of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, offers insight into the challenging relationship between religion and human rights.

Author : James A Beckford
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Religion written by James A Beckford and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1989-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the chapters in this volume were contributed to a symposium on the Changing Face of Religion which formed part of the World Congress of Sociology in New Delhi, India, 1986.

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 : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198039402
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Christianity written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role of Africa as the new Christian heartland. The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being developed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity. Some contributions consider the development of "non-Western" forms of Christianity, others look at the impact of these new Christianities in the West. The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity shows the striking cultural differences between the new world Christianity and its western counterpart. But with so many new immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in American and European settings, and northerners need to know this faith better. At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world.

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 : Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081225337X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom written by Heather J. Sharkey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, as an experience, value, and right. Drawing on examples from around the world, its essays show how the terrain of religious freedom has never been smooth and how in recent years the landscape of religious freedom has shifted.

Author : Gary Orfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Race, and Justice in a Changing America written by Gary Orfield and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many respects, religion was a bedrock of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Theology infused the spirit and rhetoric of the movement, churches served as the gathering place for its followers, and men of the cloth--foremost among them the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.--led the perilous journey that changed the nation.Today, the quest for improving the lives of racial minorities and pursuing justice is less a "movement" and more a collection of diffuse efforts to fend off a retrenchment from affirmative action and nondiscrimination laws, improve economic prospects for residents of low-income urban neighborhoods, and organize grass-roots political activities. In that context, the relationships between religion and civil rights have become less obvious and more complex.This volume of essays takes stock of the ways in which different religions, their leaders, and their followers now see their role in promoting civil rights. Developed in conjunction with the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, this book is the first in a series edited by Gary Orfield and Holly J. Lebowitz. Authors include Robert Franklin, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center; Robin Lovin, dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; David Chappell, a Buddhist scholar at the University of Hawaii; Amina Waddud, an Islam expert at Virginia Commonwealth University; Reuven Kimmelman at Brandeis University; and Allan Figueroa Deck, professor at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality.

Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199733449
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Human Rights written by John Witte, Jr. and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 432 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 : 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.