Identity, Incentives, and Religious Defense of Human Rights: Marshall Meyer and the DAIA in Argentina's Dirty War
Whether religious groups advance or limit human rights has been a topic of recent debate among human rights scholars. This article studies the conditions under which religious leaders advance human rights in the context of Argentina's Jewish community during the country's 1976–1983 militar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 160-180 |
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Meyer, Marshall T. 1930-1993
/ Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas
/ Human rights
/ Autonomy
/ Jewish community
/ Political theology
/ History 1976-1983
B International comparison / Human rights / Autonomy / Religious institution / History 1990-2008 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism FD Contextual theology KBR Latin America NCD Political ethics RB Church office; congregation TK Recent history |
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Human Rights
B Repression B Authoritarianism B Latin America |
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| Summary: | Whether religious groups advance or limit human rights has been a topic of recent debate among human rights scholars. This article studies the conditions under which religious leaders advance human rights in the context of Argentina's Jewish community during the country's 1976–1983 military dictatorship. Three major influences on religious support for human rights—autonomy from a religious community's establishment, a missionary-reformer identity, and congregational mobilization—are highlighted. Original archival research from the papers of U.S.-born rabbi Marshall T. Meyer illustrates his defense of human rights in Argentina, contrasting his work with the inaction of a major established Jewish organization. Quantitative cross-national analysis extends the case study findings by showing a relationship between religious institutions’ autonomy from the state and defense of human rights. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12880 |