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The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of these religions can play a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Human rights depend upon the values of human communities to give them content, coherence, and concrete manifestation. Religions have constantly provided the sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, and restitution and reconciliation that a human rights regime needs to survive and flourish. This volume provides authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and origins of

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Religion and Human Rights
• Subtitle: An Introduction
• Author: John Witte, M. Christian Green
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780199733453
• ISBN: 0199733457
• ID: 04535181
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 163 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. December 2011

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