This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice
based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global
perspectives. In the Chinese and other global contexts today,
social justice has been a significant topic among many disciplines
and we believe it is an appropriate topic for philosophers,
theologians, legal scholars, and social scientists to sit together,
discuss, enrich each other, and then deepen our understanding of
the topic. Many of them are concerned with the conjuncture between
social justice, human rights, and human dignity. The questions this
volume asks are: what's the place of human rights in social
justice? How is human dignity important in the discourse on human
rights? And, through these inquiries, we ask further: how is
possible to achieve humanist justice? This volume presents the
significance, challenges, and constraints of human dignity in human
rights and social justice and addresses the questions through
philosophical, theological, sociological, political, and legal
perspectives and these are placed in dialogue between the Chinese
and other global settings. We are concerned with the norms
regarding human dignity, human rights and social justice while we
take seriously into account their practice. This volume consists of
two main sections. The first section examines Chinese perspectives
on human rights and social justice, in which both from Confucianism
and Christianity are considered and the issues such as patriotism,
religious freedom, petition, social protest, the rights of
marginalized people, and sexual violence are studied. The second
section presents the perspectives of Christian public theologians
in the global contexts. They examine the influence of Christian
thought and practice in the issues of human rights and social
justice descriptively and prescriptively and address issues such as
religious laws and rights, diaconia, majoritarianism, general
equality, social-economic disparities, and climate justice from
global perspectives including in the contexts of America,
Australia, Israel and Europe. With contributions by experts from
mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the
UK, USA and Norway, the book provides valuable cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary insights and perspectives. As such it will appeal
to political and religious leaders and practitioners, particularly
those working in socially engaged religious and civil organizations
in various geopolitical contexts, including the Korean Peninsula
and Japan.
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