Read and Download eBook Full
Author: John Witte
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0199733449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the relationship between religion and human rights in seven major religious traditions, as well as key legal concepts, contemporary issues, and relationships among religion, state, and society in the areas of human rights and religious freedom.
Author: Muddathir Abdel-Rahim
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780275980450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Runzo
Publisher: Library of Global Ethics and R
Published: 2001-04-23
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis latest addition to the Oneworld Library of Global Ethics and Religion contains articles from leading scholars on the role played by religious ethics in today's society.
Author: William H. Brackney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1440828121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights. In a world where religious beliefs have become inseparable from the events of the day, ranging from the ongoing strife in the Middle East to cases of sexual abuse by clergy and controversy over circumcision laws in Europe, this is an invaluable work. It offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way the world's five major faiths—Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism—view and have viewed human rights from ancient times to the present. An overview of each tradition is provided, followed by chapters that show how human rights have been shaped and understood in the tradition from the earliest textual evidence to the contemporary era. Considering the differences among religious traditions globally, the book shows how each faith advanced the cause of human rights in unique ways. Contributors track the development of ideas, opinions, and issues, documenting both the advancement and violation of human rights in the name of religion. Demonstrating that human rights discourse cannot be divorced from religious history and experience, the book covers such issues as the right to life, the rights of women, punishment for crimes, war and peace, slavery, and violence.
Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0800697464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging reader combines some of the best and most valuable contemporary perspectives from leading and significant writers, teachers, and thinkers who together address critical challenges and opportunities for the world's religions in a post 9/11 world. Edited by Arvind Sharma and organized by topic, the essays in this reader consider broad questions such as, What influence does religion have on contemporary life? The thematic arrangement of topics includes diverse religious perspectives on: war, terror, peace, human rights, pluralism, diversity, gender, spirituality, the interreligious dialogue, international diplomacy and globalization.
Author: Joseph Runzo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1780746814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15 scholars, the book covers such key issues as women's rights, the role of international law, and responsibility for the environment. It also includes a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions", presented at the third Parliament of the World Religions.
Author: Irving Hexham
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0310314488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Author: Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0547636350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
Author: Ronald F. Inglehart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-02
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0197547044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.--
Author: Antony Loewenstein
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1743289138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope? We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position. Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters. Antony Lowenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam. Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.
