Religious Diversity and Human Rights

✍ Scribed by Irene Bloom (editor); J. Paul Martin (editor); Wayne L. Proudfoot (editor)

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 362
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Explores the applicability or pertinence of the language of human rights in non-Western contexts, the bearing of traditional concepts of the person on modern human rights thinking, the sources of and limitations on the idea and practice of religious tolerance, and the role of religious ideas and institutions in influencing human rights situations in several of the most troubled and contentious areas of the contemporary world, such as the Middle East, India, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union.

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