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Religion and Human Rights An Introduction

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ISBN-10: 0199733449

ISBN-13: 9780199733446

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Witte, M. Christian Green, John Witte

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Don S. Browning is the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It.M. Christian Green is senior fellow and senior lecturer in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and author of a forthcoming title on fatherhood in the Western tradition.John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published twenty-four…