The legal traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have contributed much to the cultivation and violation of religious human rights around the world. In this volume Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and twenty leading scholars offer an authoritative assessment of these contributions and challenge people of all faiths to adopt "golden rules of religious liberty."
This volume and its companion "Religious Human Rights in Global" "Perspective: Religious Perspectives" are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University ...
At the same time, the international community has come to focus on the challenge of promoting global human security. This groundbreaking book explores how these trends are interacting.
This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global perspectives.
Rather than suggesting that harmony can be achieved without conflict, the essays in this volume seek to present the reader with a variety of perspectives from which to view and understand the relationships among religion, law, and freedom ...
Voices from the margins Knowledge and interpellation in Israeli human rights protests Richard W. ) . ... Egyptians are killing us , helping our friends that were wounded , going to the graveyards with our dead friends and here , in Tel ...
This book deals with the thorny issue of human rights in different cultures and religions, especially in the light of bioethical issues.
The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13.
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 ...
This book focuses on the connections. Examination of rights reveals tensions, ambiguities and conflicts. This book constructs a Christology which centres on a Christ of the vulnerable and the margins.
Decades of ecumenical relations and theological dialogue have led to a certain attenuation of the Orthodox consciousness ... in a “reverse” direction, from the margins (the Orthodox “diaspora”) to the metropole (the Orthodox heartland).