Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? The contributors to this volume address this and many other questions as they examine, through a bottom-up approach, the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers. INDICE: 1. Introduction; Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow; 2. The International Human Rights Regime; Thomas Banchoff; Part I: Islam and the Global Politics of Human Rights; 3. Human Rights and Democracy in Islam: The Indonesian Case in Global Perspective; Robert W. Hefner; 4. Muslims, Human Rights and Women's Rights; Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad; 5. Rituals of Respect: Sufis and Secularists in Senegal; Alfred Stepan; Part II: Three Regions: Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia; 6. Religious Pluralism, Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America; Paul Freston; 7. Gender Justice and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa; Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf; 8. Buddhism, Human Rights, and Non-Buddhist Minorities; Charles Keyes; Part III: Four Key Countries: India, China, Russia and the US; 9. Hinduism and the Politics of Rights in India; Pratap Bhanu Mehta; 10. Religion, State Power, and Human Rights in China; David Ownby; 11. Religious Communities and Rights in the Russian Federation; Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer; 12. Human Rights, the Catholic Church, and the Death Penalty in the United States; Thomas Banchoff
- ISBN: 978-0-19-534338-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés