Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives: 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9041101764 ISBN 13: 9789041101761

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff, 1996

Synopsis

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.
This volume and its companion Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University.

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Synopsis

The sacred texts and legal traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have contributed much to the cultivation and violation of religious human rights around the world - particularly of women, children, and dissidents. Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and 20 leading scholars offer an authoritative assessment of these contributions, and challenge peoples of all faiths to adopt "golden rules of religious liberty". This volume and its companion "Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives" are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9041101764
• ISBN 13: 9789041101761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 636
• Editor: Witte Jr John, Van Der Vyver Johan D