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Religious human rights in global perspective : religious perspectives / edited by John Witte, Jr., and Johan D. van der Vyver.

Contributor(s): Witte, John, Jr, 1959- | Van der Vyver, Johan David, 1934-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: The Hague [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Mass.] : M. Nijhoff Publishers, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xxxv, 597 ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: unspecifiedISBN: 9041101799Subject(s): Freedom of religion | Human rights -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 342/.0852 | 342.2852 LOC classification: K3258 | .R45 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-570) and index.
Contents:
Religious dimensions of human rights / Martin E. Marty -- Relious rights: an historical perspective / Brian Tierney -- Human rights and Biblical legal thought / Wolfgang Huber -- Religious rights and Christian texts / Luke Timothy Johnson -- Religious activism for human rights: a Christian case study / J. Bryan Hehir -- Human rights in the church / William Johnson Everett -- Thinking about women, Christianity, and rights / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The religous rights of children / John E. Coons -- Religious human rights in Judaic texts / David Novak -- Forming religious communities and respecting dissenters rights: a Jewish tradition for a modern society -- Jewish NGOs and religious human rights: a case study / Irwin Cotler.
Women in Judaism from the perspective of human rights / Michael S. Berger & Deborah E. Lipstadt -- The duty to educate in Jewish law: a right with a purpose / Michael J. Broyde -- Islamic foundations of rligious human rights / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʹim -- Rights of women within Islamic communities / Riffat Hassan -- The treatment of religious dissents under classical and contemporary Islamic law / Donna E. Arzt -- An apologia for religious human rights / James E. Wood, Jr. -- Religion and human rights: a theological apologetic / Max L. Stackhouse and Stephen E. Healey -- Identity, difference and belonging: religous and cultural rights / Charles Villa-Vicencio.

Companion to Religious human rights in global perspective: legal perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-570) and index.

Religious dimensions of human rights / Martin E. Marty -- Relious rights: an historical perspective / Brian Tierney -- Human rights and Biblical legal thought / Wolfgang Huber -- Religious rights and Christian texts / Luke Timothy Johnson -- Religious activism for human rights: a Christian case study / J. Bryan Hehir -- Human rights in the church / William Johnson Everett -- Thinking about women, Christianity, and rights / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The religous rights of children / John E. Coons -- Religious human rights in Judaic texts / David Novak -- Forming religious communities and respecting dissenters rights: a Jewish tradition for a modern society -- Jewish NGOs and religious human rights: a case study / Irwin Cotler.

Women in Judaism from the perspective of human rights / Michael S. Berger & Deborah E. Lipstadt -- The duty to educate in Jewish law: a right with a purpose / Michael J. Broyde -- Islamic foundations of rligious human rights / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʹim -- Rights of women within Islamic communities / Riffat Hassan -- The treatment of religious dissents under classical and contemporary Islamic law / Donna E. Arzt -- An apologia for religious human rights / James E. Wood, Jr. -- Religion and human rights: a theological apologetic / Max L. Stackhouse and Stephen E. Healey -- Identity, difference and belonging: religous and cultural rights / Charles Villa-Vicencio.

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