Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives Contributor(s): Witte Jr, John (Editor), Van Der Vyver, Johan D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9041101764 ISBN-13: 9789041101761 Publisher: Brill Nijhoff OUR PRICE: $406.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: The sacred texts and legal traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have contributed much to the cultivation and violation of religious human rights around the world - particularly of women, children, and dissidents. Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and twenty leading scholars offer an authoritative assessment of these contributions, and challenge peoples of all faiths to adopt golden rules of religious liberty'. This volume and its companion "Religious Human Rights in Global" "Perspective: Legal Perspectives" are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Law | Constitutional - Law | International |
Dewey: 342.285 |
LCCN: 95053025 |
Physical Information: 636 pages |
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Publisher Description: In this Dickensian century' of human rights, the world has cultivated the best of religious rights protections, but witnessed the worst of religious rights abuses. In this volume, Jimmy Carter, John T. Noonan, Jr., and a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights laws and practices of the international community and of selected states in the Atlantic continents. This volume and its companion Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. |