Religion and International Human Rights
- List Price: $20.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Perseus Books
- Publish date: 12/30/2004
Description:
Utilizing current international understandings of human rights, this timely & important book clarifies the relationships between religious traditions & human rights, analyzes why certain traditions accept some but not all human rights, & explains how human rights & their analogs can be used to help resolve problems of human conflict & oppression in which religion plays a role. Notable features include attention to forms of religious fundamentalism, the reasons why women become special targets of religiously based oppression, & case studies of human rights violations involving religion in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North America, & China.
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