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Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction

Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction

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The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, restitution and reconciliation that a human rights regime needs to survive and flourish in any culture. This book provides authoritative assessments of the contributions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and indigenous religions to the development of the ideas and institutions of human rights. It also probes the major human rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities around the world today, and the main challenges that the world's religions will pose to the human rights regime in the future.

ISBN

9780199733453

Publication Date

2011

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Keywords

Human rights, religion, violence, repression, prejudice, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism

Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction

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