[PDF] Essays On Culture Religion And Rights eBook

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178661569X

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Culture and religion are overlapping phenomena: cultures are normally understood to subsume religions, and religions are very often central to cultures. The two are particularly closely associated when we focus on the kinds of difference that generate issues for public policy. The world has always been culturally and religiously diverse, but recent movements of population have intensified the internal diversity of societies. That increased diversity has presented societies with a number of pressing questions. How much should cultural differences matter? Can they and should they be treated impartially? Should they receive equal recognition and what sort of recognition might that be? Are cultural and religious differences at odds with human rights thinking or do universal human rights demand respect for those differences? When the demands of a religious faith clash with those of a society's rules, which should take precedence? Should the religious have to endure whatever burdens their beliefs bring their way, or should they be accommodated so that their religious faith does not become a source of social disadvantage? Should they have to put up with unwelcome treatments of their beliefs or should they be protected from the offensive and the disrespectful? These are some of the many issues examined in Culture, Religion and Rights.

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781786615688

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A rigorous examination of the issues raised by cultural and religious pluralism.

Author : Nazila Ghanea-Hercock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9047419065

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Where can religions find sources of legitimacy for human rights? How do, and how should, religious leaders and communities respond to human rights as defined in modern International Law? When religious precepts contradict human rights standards - for example in relation to freedom of expression or in relation to punishments - which should trump the other, and why? Can human rights and religious teachings be interpreted in a manner which brings reconciliation closer? Do the modern concept and system of human rights undermine the very vision of society that religions aim to impart? Is a reference to God in the discussion of human rights misplaced? Do human fallibilities with respect to interpretation, judicial reasoning and the understanding of human oneness and dignity provide the key to the undeniable and sometimes devastating conflicts that have arisen between, and within, religions and the human rights movement? In this volume, academics and lawyers tackle these most difficult questions head-on, with candour and creativity, and the collection is rendered unique by the further contributions of a remarkable range of other professionals, including senior religious leaders and representatives, journalists, diplomats and civil servants, both national and international. Most notably, the contributors do not shy away from the boldest question of all - summed up in the book's title. The thoroughly edited and revised papers which make up this collection were originally prepared for a ground-breaking conference organised by the Clemens Nathan Research Centre, the University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Martinus Nijhoff/Brill.

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780864864291

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Rights in the post-reform era: Kimberle Crenshaw

Author : Timothy Earl Fulop
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0415914582

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 147258144X

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Who are the "Nones"? What does humanism say about race, religion and popular culture? How do race, religion and popular culture inform and affect humanism? The demographics of the United States are changing, marked most profoundly by the religiously unaffiliated, or what we have to come to call the "Nones". Spread across generations in the United States, this group encompasses a wide range of philosophical and ideological perspectives, from some in line with various forms of theism to those who are atheistic, and all sorts of combinations in between. Similar changes to demographics are taking place in Europe and elsewhere. Humanism: Essays on Race, Religion and Popular Culture provides a much-needed humanities-based analysis and description of humanism in relation to these cultural markers. Whereas most existing analysis attempts to explain humanism through the natural and social sciences (the "what" of life), Anthony B. Pinn explores humanism in relation to "how" life is arranged, socialized, ritualized, and framed. This ground-breaking publication brings together old and new essays on a wide range of topics and themes, from the African-American experience, to the development of humanist churches, and the lyrics of Jay Z.

Author : George Pell
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081321503X

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Drawing on a deep knowledge of history and human affairs, the essays pinpoint the key issues facing Christians and non-believers in determining the future of modern democratic life

Author : David Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316240584

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This collection of essays by David Little addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays, Little articulates his view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain, injury, and destruction for self-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus, developed in response, was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force. He contends that while there must be an accountable human rights standard, it should guarantee latitude for the expression and practice of beliefs, consistent with outlawing arbitrary force. Little details the theoretical grounds of the relationship between religion and human rights, and concludes with essays on US policy and the restraint of force in regard to terrorism. With a foreword by John Kelsay, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004460292

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In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.