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Religion and human rights : competing claims?

Addresses how religion impacts upon human rights, - particularly, how it affects women's human rights and development. Different-faith representatives look at: theological versus secular validation of human rights; Islamic feminism; liberationist directions in the Catholic Church; and more.
Print Book, English, ©1999
M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y., ©1999
xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
9780765602619, 9780765602626, 076560261X, 0765602628
39256537
Introduction : ambiguities of the divine / Peter Juviler
Human rights and public theology : the basic validation of human rights / Max L. Stackhouse
Reply: Human rights : religious or enlightened? / Louis Henkin
Human environmental rights and/or biotic rights / Larry Rasmussen
Reply: Rights of creation to rites of revolution / Patricia A. Daly
Religion and societal change : the struggle for human rights in Latin America / Margaret E. Crahan
Reply: Religion and societal change : the struggle for human rights in Latin America / James F. Joyce
Gandhi's philosophy of Satyagraha : cautionary notes for the International Penal Lobby / Carrie Gustafson
Reply: Secular eschatologies and class interests of the Internationalized new class / Kenneth Anderson
Speaking/seeking a common language : women, the Hindu right, and human rights in India / Arati Rao
Reply: Reconceptualizing the relationships between religion, women, culture, and human rights / Julie Stone Peters
Feminism, Jewish orthodoxy, and human rights : strange bedfellows? / Blu Greenberg
Reply: Jewish orthodoxy, modernity, and women's rights / Alan R. Segal
Islamic law and human rights : conundrums and equivocations / Ann Elizabeth Mayer