Religious Diversity and Human Rights / / Irene Bloom, Wayne L. Proudfoot, J. Paul Martin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bloom, Irene,; Martin, J. Paul,; Proudfoot, Wayne L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1893]; ©1893
• Year of Publication: 1893
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Explores the applicability or pertinence of the language of human rights in non-Western contexts, the bearing of traditional concepts of the person on modern human rights thinking, the sources of and limitations on the idea and practice of religious tolerance, and the role of religious ideas and institutions in influencing human rights situations in several of the most troubled and contentious areas of the contemporary world, such as the Middle East, India, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Bloom, Irene -- Part One. New Perspectives on Major Religious Traditions -- 1. The Individual and the Community in the Normative / Goodman, Lenn E. -- 2. Hindu Perspectives on the Individual and the Collectivity / Elder, Joseph W. -- 3. Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: Buddhist Views on Individualism and Altruism / Thurman, Robert Α. F. -- 4. Confucian Perspectives on the Individual and the Collectivity / Bloom, Irene -- 5. The Individual and the Collectivity in Christianity / Langan, John -- 6. The Individual in Islamic Society / Bulliet, Richard W. -- Part Two. On Religion, Secularity, and Religious Tolerance -- 7. Religion and Lockean Natural Rights / Ashcraft, Richard -- 8. Christianity, Islam, and Religious Liberty / Little, David / Sachedina, Abdulaziz / Kelsay, John -- Part Three. Religion and Rights in the Contemporary World -- 9. Hindu Nationalism and Human Rights / Juergensmeyer, Mark -- 10. Catholicism and Human Rights in Latin America / Crahan, Margaret E. -- 11. Russian Orthodoxy and Human Rights / Valliere, Paul -- 12. Muslim Women Between Human Rights and Islamic Norms / Cooke, Miriam / Lawrence, Bruce B. -- Contributors -- Index