Human rights or religious rules?
The relation between religion and human rights is a contested one, as they appear to compete with one another. Religion is often considered to represent a tradition of heteronomy and subordination in premodern times. Human rights emerged from early modern and modern times and stand for principles li...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2010
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| In: |
Empirical research in religion and human rights (1)
Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | Chronique sur l'étude du religieux contemporain (2013)
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| Series/Journal: | Empirical research in religion and human rights
1 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Human rights
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| Further subjects: | B
Human rights Religious aspects
B Human Rights Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | The relation between religion and human rights is a contested one, as they appear to compete with one another. Religion is often considered to represent a tradition of heteronomy and subordination in premodern times. Human rights emerged from early modern and modern times and stand for principles like human dignity, autonomy, equality. The first question in this book is how to define religion, its meaning, fucntions and structures, and how to study it. The second question is how to understand religion from its relation with human rights in such a way that justice is done to both religion and human rights. These questions are dealt with using a historical and systematic approach. The third question is what the impact of religion might be on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. human rights culture. For an answer, empirical research is reported among about 1000 students, Christians, Muslims, and nonreligious, at the end of secondary and the beginning of tertiary education in the Netherlands. (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag) |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-447) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9004183043 |