Since 1982, the Center for the Study of Law and Religion's publications in multiple languages have been the Center's most visible and enduring contribution to the global conversation about law and religion. CSLR now edits three book series and an international journal, and its faculty and research projects have produced more than 300 books published by leading university and trade presses. CSLR faculty, scholars, and students also publish widely in journals of law, the humanities, and social sciences, and have edited several journal symposia on discrete law and religion themes.
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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives
John Witte Jr. and Johan D. van der Vyver
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."
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Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious, and Political Perspectives
Michael J. Broyde and John Witte Jr.
Written by some of the most highly regarded scholars in the field, the essays in Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious, and Political Perspectives examine the remarkable contributions that Judaism has made, and can make to the theory, law, and activism of human rights. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of Jewish tradition and human rights.
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The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion : A Tributer to Harold J. Berman
John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander
This volume is comprised of a collection of essays offered as a tribute to Harold J. Berman for his path-breaking work in the field of law and religion. The first group of essays treats various historical aspects of the interaction of law and religion. Brian Tierney offers critical appraisal of Michel Villey's thesis that the idea of subjective rights was first developed by the fourteenth century nominalist philosopher William Ockham and demonstrates that the idea
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Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, commonly known as Shari'a that is perceived by many Muslims to be part of the Islamic faith.As a Muslim, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im is sensitive to and appreciative of the delicate relationship between Islam as a religion and Islamic law. Nevertheless, he considers that the questions raised here must be resolved if the public
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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives
John Witte Jr. and Johan D. van der Vyver
In this `Dickensian century' of human rights, the world has cultivated the best of religious rights protections, but witnessed the worst of religious rights abuses. In this volume, Jimmy Carter, John T. Noonan, Jr., and a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights laws and practices of the international community and of selected states in the Atlantic continents.
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Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing
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Human Rights and Religious Values: An Uneasy Relationship?
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, and Hendrik M. Vroom
The relevance, indeed urgency, of establishing a clear relationship between human rights and religious values is easily argued. Developments throughout the world have given rise to a number of conflicts caused by disparate interpretations of religious values and basic human rights. This volume demonstrates that religious ideals of human life differ very deeply, and it offers a realistic approach to those deep differences. Focusing on the implications of religious anthropologies for the possibility of acknowledging
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The Morality of Happiness
Julia Annas
Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories.
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Christianity And Democracy In Global Context
John Witte Jr.
In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy. Christian churches have served as benevolent agents of welfare and catalysts of political reform. But they have also served as belligerent allies of repression and censors of human rights. Christian theology has helped to cultivate democratic ideas of equality, liberty, and responsibility. But it has also helped to perpetuate repressive ideas of statism, elitism, and chauvinism. In the future, Christian attitudes and
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Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Francis M. Deng
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights.
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A Christian Theory of Social Institutions
John Witte Jr.
An English translation of Dutch jurist and philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd’s lectures on social theory at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1937, and a sturdy philosophical defense of the neo-Calvinist idea of sphere sovereignty introduced in the prior generation by Abraham Kuyper. The volume further provides a pithy introduction to Dooyeweerd’s more complex theories of law, politics, and society set out in later books like his Encyclopedia of Legal Science, A New Critique of Theoretical
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The Impact of the Market on Character Formation, Ethical Education and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies
Jürgen von Hagen, Michael Welker, John Witte Jr., and Stephen Pickard
Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. Individuals with differing values clamor for equality. Organizations and groups assert particular interests. Social movements flourish and fade. Some see in this clash of principles and aims the potential for a more just human community, while others fear the erosion of enduring culture. Yet beneath this welter stand powerful and pervasive institutions, whose distinctive norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character—notably the family, the market,
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