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: 368
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. New Perspectives on Major Religious Traditions
1. The Individual and the Community in the Normative
2. Hindu Perspectives on the Individual and the Collectivity
3. Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: Buddhist Views on Individualism and Altruism
4. Confucian Perspectives on the Individual and the Collectivity
5. The Individual and the Collectivity in Christianity
6. The Individual in Islamic Society
Part Two. On Religion, Secularity, and Religious Tolerance
7. Religion and Lockean Natural Rights
8. Christianity, Islam, and Religious Liberty
Part Three. Religion and Rights in the Contemporary World
9. Hindu Nationalism and Human Rights
10. Catholicism and Human Rights in Latin America
11. Russian Orthodoxy and Human Rights
12. Muslim Women Between Human Rights and Islamic Norms
Contributors
Index