Tensions within and between Religions and Human Rights

This volume contains theoretical and empirical articles on tensions within and between religion and human rights. There are conflicts in the past histories of Christianity and Islam in regard to human rights, but also in contemporary history. There are also tensions in the sphere of human rights, like the relation between natural law and human rights, morality and law, liberty and equality, civil rights and socio-economic rights, and more specific ones, like the rights of humans and citizens, religious freedom and the separation of church and state, religious freedom and freedom of speech, and the state and religion on social welfare provisions. The volume aims at theoretical clarification and empirical exploration on data from 14 countries.

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Editor:

Johannes A. van der Ven

Hans-Georg Ziebertz

Category:

Religious Studies - Sociology of Religion

BIC2:

Interfaith relations, Religious ethics

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Series:

Empirical Research in Religion and Human Rights

ISSN:

1877-881X

ISBN13:

9789004218673

Publication Year:

2012

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Hardback

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

vi, 258 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note

Johannes A. (Hans) van der Ven, PhD Nijmegen 1973, Honorary Doctor Lund 1998, is research associate for religion and human rights in the department of political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He publishes extensively on religion and human rights in a theoretical and empirical perspective including Human Rights or Religious Rules? Brill, Leiden 2010.

Hans-Georg Ziebertz, PhD theol. 1990 Nijmegen, PhD rer.soc Tübingen 1993, is chair of Practical Theology /Religious Education at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Recent publications: Youth in Europe, Münster, volume 1, 2 & 3, LIT, Münster 2009: Gender in Islam und Christentum, Münster, LIT 2010; Menschenrechte, Christentum und Islam, LIT, Münster 2010.

Readership

All those interested in religion, especially Christianity and Islam, in human rights, and their interrelations, as well as historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers and ethicists.

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Introduction

1. Universality of human rights and the need for parsimony
Jean-Pierre Wils

2. Freedom of Religion and Criminal Law: A Legal Appraisal.
From the Principle of Separation of Church and State to the Principle of Pluralist Democracy?
Piet Hein van Kempen

3. On the Foundations of Human rights. Religious and Secular Approaches in the West and in Islam
Mathias Rohe

4. Religious liberty in political perspective
Johannes A. van der Ven

5. The Impact of Religion on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech among Young Swedes
Anders Sjöborg

6. Human Rights among Muslims and Christians in Palestine and Germany
Raymond J. Webb, Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Jack Curran, and Marion Reindl

7. Women Rights and Religion among Christian and Islamic Students in Tanzania
Leo W.J.M. van der Tuin & Clement D. Fumbo

8. Religious Socialisation and Values as Predictors of Human Rights Attitudes. An empirical study among Christian and Muslim adolescents in Germany
Hans-Georg Ziebertz & Marion Reindl

List of Contributors

Contributors include Jack Curran, Clement Fumbo, Marion Reindl, Mathias Rohe, Anders Sjöborg, Leo van der Tuin, Johannes (Hans) van der Ven, Piet Hein van Kampen, Raymond Webb, Jean-Pierre Wils, Hans-Georg Ziebertz.

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Human Rights and the Impact of Religion

Edited by Johannes A. van der Ven, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Hans-Georg Ziebertz, University of Würzburg

This volume is about the positive, ambivalent, null and negative effects in various historical periods by various religious denominations within Christianity, Islam and Hinduism on the attitudes towards human rights of the first, second and third generation.

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Human Rights or Religious Rules?

by Johannes A. van der Ven, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Drawing on historical inisights, systematic reflections and empirical data, this book offers a substantive understanding of the complex relationship between religion and human rights and of the empirical impact of Christianity and Islam on the attitudes toward human rights, i.e. a human rights ...

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