Peter Juviler, Carrie Gustafson

Religion and Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Competing Claims?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses how religion impacts upon human rights, - particularly, how it affects women's human rights and development. Different-faith representatives look at: theological versus secular validation of human rights; Islamic feminism; liberationist directions in the Catholic Church; and more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315502557
• Artikelnr.: 45434007

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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