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Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights

Thomas Banchoff, Robert Wuthnow
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      Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary context of globalization, these questions have a salient religious dimension. Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways, including: whether''universal'' human rights are in fact an imposition of Christian understandings; whether democracy, the ''rule of the people,'' is compatible with God's law; and whether international efforts to enforce human rights including religious freedom amount to an illicit imperialism. This book brings togetherleading specialists across disciplines for the first major survey of the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions. The authors take a bottom-up approach and focus particularly on hot-button issues like human rights in Islam, Falun Gong in China, and religion in the former Soviet Union. Each essay examines the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and internationalpolicymakers.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Thomas Banchoff, Robert Wuthnow EAN: 9780195343380 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 442 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-05-12 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Human rights, civil rights, Religion and politics

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      TB: Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University RW: Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University
      Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary context of globalization, these questions have a salient religious dimension. Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways, including: whether''universal'' human rights are in fact an imposition of Christian understandings; whether democracy, the ''rule of the people,'' is compatible with God's law; and whether international efforts to enforce human rights including religious freedom amount to an illicit imperialism. This book brings togetherleading specialists across disciplines for the first major survey of the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions. The authors take a bottom-up approach and focus particularly on hot-button issues like human rights in Islam, Falun Gong in China, and religion in the former Soviet Union. Each essay examines the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and internationalpolicymakers.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Thomas Banchoff, Robert Wuthnow EAN: 9780195343380 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 442 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-05-12 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Human rights, civil rights, Religion and politics

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      TB: Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University RW: Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University

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