Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Religious Dimensions of Human Rights -- Religious Rights: An Historical Perspective -- Human Rights and Biblical Legal Thought -- Religious Rights and Christian Texts -- Religious Activism for Human Rights: A Christian Case Study -- Human Rights in the Church -- Thinking About Women, Christianity, and Rights -- The Religious Rights of Children -- Religious Human Rights in Judaic Texts -- Forming Religious Communities and Respecting Dissenter's Rights: A Jewish Tradition for a Modem Society -- Jewish NGOs and Religious Human Rights: A Case Study -- Women in Judaism From the Perspective of Human Rights -- The Duty to Educate in Jewish Law: A Right with a Purpose -- Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights -- Rights of Women Within Islamic Communities -- The Treatment of Religious Dissidents Under Classical and Contemporary Islamic Law -- An Apologia for Religious Human Rights -- Religion and Human Rights: A Theological Apologetic -- Identity, Difference, and Belonging: Religious and Cultural Rights -- Bibliography of Books and Articles Cited -- Biographical Sketches of Contributors -- Index.

In this `Dickensian century' of human rights, the world has cultivated the best of religious rights protections, but witnessed the worst of religious rights abuses. In this volume, Jimmy Carter, John T. Noonan, Jr., and a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights laws and practices of the international community and of selected states in the Atlantic continents. This volume and its companion Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University