Based on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights.
Human Rights and the World's Major Religions: The Buddhist tradition. Volume 5
Covering a wide span of history, this set includes volumes on Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Each volume touches on such issues as the right to life, the rights...
Human Rights and the World's 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 ...
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 ...
Human Rights and the World's Major Religions
William H. Brackney. Dekmejian , Islam in Revolution : Fundamentalism in the Arab World , 2nd ed . ( Syracuse , NY : Syracuse University Press , 1995 ) . 70 Ernest Gellner , Postmodernism , Reason , and Religion ( London : Routledge ...
The book goes on to describe the rise of the first modern-style human rights statements, associated with the Enlightenment and contemporary antislavery and revolutionary fervour.
Intended for law schools, human rights scholars and activists, and international organizations, this book discusses the legal meaning of religion and belief, the UN work in this respect, religious minorities, the issues of proselytism, ...
"Featuring a unique, consistent, and modular chapter structure and numerous pedagogical features, Invitation to World Religions, Fourth Edition, invites students to explore the world's great religions with respect and a sense of wonder.