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Human rights or religious rules? / by Johannes A. van der Ven.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical research in religion and human rights ; v. 1.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 473 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004188860
  • 900418886X
  • 9789004183049
  • 9004183043
  • 1282786849
  • 9781282786844
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human rights or religious rules?DDC classification:
  • 201/.723 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.H78 V458 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Varieties of religious weakness and strength -- Religious identity -- Reflective comparison in religious research -- Human rights : religious or nonreligious? -- Human rights : natural or political? -- Religious rights for minorities -- Religious freedom -- Separation of church and state -- Impact of religion on attitudes toward religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
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, functions 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 h.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)338718

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Varieties of religious weakness and strength -- Religious identity -- Reflective comparison in religious research -- Human rights : religious or nonreligious? -- Human rights : natural or political? -- Religious rights for minorities -- Religious freedom -- Separation of church and state -- Impact of religion on attitudes toward religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

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, functions 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 h.

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