Religion and the global politics of human rights / edited by Thomas Banchoff and Robert
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- 9780195343380
- 201.723 REL
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201.723 COW Human rights and the world's major religions | 201.723 FLO Buddhist tradition | 201.723 HAA Human rights and the world's major religions | 201.723 REL Religion and the global politics of human rights / edited by Thomas Banchoff and Robert | 201.7273 CHO Peace is the way: bringing war and violence to an end | 201.7273 PEA Peacemakers in action | 201.73 TYN Visions of development |
Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary context of globalization, these questions have a salient religious dimension. Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways, including: whether ''universal'' human rights are in fact an imposition of Christian understandings; whether democracy, the ''rule of the people,'' is compatible with God's law; and whether international efforts to enforce human rights including religious freedom amount to an illicit imperialism. This book brings together leading specialists across disciplines for the first major survey of the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions. The authors take a bottom-up approach and focus particularly on hot-button issues like human rights in Islam, Falun Gong in China, and religion in the former Soviet Union. Each essay examines the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers.
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