The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and
problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions
have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of
these religions can play a crucial role in the modern struggle for
universal human rights. Human rights depend upon the values of
human communities to give them content, coherence, and concrete
manifestation. Religions have constantly provided the sources and
scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint
and regret, and restitution and reconciliation that a human rights
regime needs to survive and flourish. This volume provides
authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and
indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and
origins of "human rights, " and offers insight into the major human
rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities.
These include core issues of freedom of religious conscience,
choice, exercise, expression, association, morality, and
self-determination. They also include analysis of the roles of
religious ideas and institutions in the cultivation and abridgement
of rights of women, children, and minorities, and rights to peace,
orderly development, and protection of nature and the environment.
With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and
Human Rights offers a wealth of knowledge and analysis for
understanding the contributions to human rights and the challenges
faced by the world's religions.
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