Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights

Zusatztext For three decades, scholars have shown that religion and human rights need each other. The volume opens an important new chapter of scholarship by illustrating precisely how religion and human rights interact today. Judiciously edited and strikingly original, the volume combines case studies of local communities with broad surveys of major religions and regions of the world that illustrate the complex and diverse controversies that remain, especially over women's rights, religious freedom, and the rights to life and bodily integrity. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Banchoff: Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University Rober Wuthnow: Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University Klappentext Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? The contributors to this volume address this and many other questions as they examine, through a bottom-up approach, the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers. Zusammenfassung Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? The contributors to this volume address this and many other questions as they examine, through a bottom-up approach, the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Banchoff, Thomas (EDT)/ Wuthnow Banchoff
• Assisted by: Thomas Banchoff (Editor), Banchoff Thomas (Editor), Robert Wuthnow (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2011
• EAN: 9780195343397
• ISBN: 978-0-19-534339-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Human rights, civil rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State