Human Rights or Religious Rules?

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

The relation between religion and human rights is a contested one, as they appear to compete with one another. Religion is often considered to represent a tradition of heteronomy and subordination in premodern times. Human rights emerged from early modern and modern times and stand for principles like human dignity, autonomy, equality. The first question in this book is how to define religion, its meaning, functions and structures, and how to study it. The second question is how to understand religion from its relation with human rights in such a way that justice is done to both religion and human rights. These questions are dealt with using a historical and systematic approach. The third question is what the impact of religion might be on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. human rights culture. For an answer, empirical research is reported among about 1000 students, Christians, Muslims, and nonreligious, at the end of secondary and the beginning of tertiary education in the Netherlands.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-03-08
Mått:160 x 240 x 32 mm
Vikt:987 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Empirical Research in Religion and Human Rights
Antal sidor:474
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004183049

Utforska kategorier

Etiska frågor och debatter inom Samhälle och politik
Folkrätt inom Juridik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Johannes A. van der Ven, PhD Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), Doctor honoris causa University of Lund (sweden), occupies the chair of comparative empirical science of religion, especially in relation to religion and human rights, at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is chair of the International Empirical Research Program ‘Religion and Human Rights’. He wrote 15 books in Dutch, German, and English, among which Entwurf einer empirischen Theologie (1990) [Practical Theology: An Empirical Approach (1993)], Suffering: Why for God's Sake?(together with H. Vossen) (1995), Ecclesiology in Context (1996), Formation of the Moral Self (1998), God Reinvented? (1998). Education for Reflective Ministry (1998), Is There a God of Human Rights (together with J.S. Dreyer and H.J.C. Pieterse) (2004). He edited 18 books, and published about 400 refereed articles in ten languages.

Recensioner i media

"This intensely creative and learned book will be of great interest to scholars of human rights and of secular and religious ethics."-James V. Spickard, University of Redlands

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ... viiList of Figures and Tables ... xiIntroduction ... 1PART ONERELIGIONI. Varieties of Religious Weakness and Strength ... 11II. Religious Identity ... 53III. Refl ective Comparison in Religious Research ... 88PART TWORELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTSIV. Human Rights: Religious or Nonreligious? ... 135V. Human Rights: Natural or Political? ... 187VI. Religious Rights for Minorities ... 226PART THREEEMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS CULTUREVII. Religious Freedom ... 265VIII. Separation of Church and State ... 304IX. Impact of Religion on Attitudes toward Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State ... 356Appendix ... 399Bibliography ... 413Index of Subjects ... 449Index of Names ... 466

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Anders Bäckström, Urban Claesson, Ulf Zackariasson, Stig Linde, Torkel Jansson, Marie Demker, Johannes (A) van der Ven, Carl-Henrik Grenholm, Dan-Erik Andersson, Diana Mulinari, Eva-Lotta Grantén, Mohammad Fazlhashemi, Elisabeth Gerle, Catherine Keller, Mattias Martinson, Petra Carlsson, Jan Eckerdal, Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg