Covering the world's major religions, these five volumes together provide a comprehensive examination of the way these faiths view human rights, from ancient times to the present.
Human Rights and the World's Religions
In Joseph M. Kitagawa , and Mark D. Cummings , eds . , Buddhism and Asian History : Readings from the Encyclopedia of Religion . New York : Macmillan , 1989. Basic historical data , shows how Buddhists in Korea were repressed for ...
As the co-editor of the Library of Global Ethics and Religion, she has published The Meaning of Life in the World Religions; Love, Sex, and Gender in the World Religions; and Ethics in the ...
They were also generally from rural areas in the Old World and so did not settle comfortably into the American Eastern elite. Rather, they tended to migrate inland where financial opportunities for their modest skills seemed greater.
Human Rights and the World's Major Religions: The Buddhist tradition. Volume 5
Human Rights and the World's Major Religions
This volume examines the relationship between religion and human rights in seven major religious traditions, as well as key legal concepts, contemporary issues, and relationships among religion, state, and society in the areas of human ...
See also Respect: for non-Muslims Treaty of Carlowitz (1699), 6 Tunbukti, Ahmad Baba al-, 82 Tunisi, Khayr al-Din al-, 105, 198 Tunisia, 92-93, 108, 111 Turkey, 90-91, 109, 115-18. See also Ottoman Empire Turner, Henry I Index.
This book deals with the thorny issue of human rights in different cultures and religions, especially in the light of bioethical issues.
This book addresses the relationship of Christianity and human rights—a relationship fraught with ambiguity. While human rights discourse arose in a Christian culture, it has sometimes stood in opposition to organized Christianity.