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The relation between religion and human rights is a contested one, as they appear to compete with one another. Religion is often considered to represent a tradition of heteronomy and subordination in premodern times. Human rights emerged from early modern and modern times and stand for principles like human dignity, autonomy, equality. The first question in this book is how to define religion, its meaning, fucntions and structures, and how to study it. The second question is how to understand religion from its relation with human rights in such a way that justice is done to both religion and human rights. These questions are dealt with using a historical and systematic approach. The third question is what the impact of religion might be on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. human rights culture. For an answer, empirical research is reported among about 1000 students, Christians, Muslims, and nonreligious, at the end of secondary and the beginning of tertiary education in the Netherlands. (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)

The central claim of this book is that although the concept of religious freedom as a human rights concept is emblematic on the one hand, the concept is also problematic on the other, so that its implications are far from self-evident despite the ready acceptance the term receives as embodying a worthwhile goal. This book therefore problematizes the concept along legal, constitutional, ethical, and theological lines, and especially from the perspective of religious studies, so that religious freedom in the world could be enlarged in a way which promotes human flourishing.--

"This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically, it considers the significant place that spiritual care has in hospice care and claims that the changing role of religion and belief in society highlights the need to re-examine how such identities are integrated in professional practice. Using religious literacy as a framework, the author explores how healthcare professionals in hospice care respond to religion, belief and spiritual identities of service users. Part 1 provides a comprehensive account of the content and history of the place of religion, belief and spirituality in hospice care. Part 2 examines how these topics are negotiated in hospice care by looking at three key areas: environment, professional practice and organisation. Part 3 proposes a religious literacy model applicable to hospice care and explores implications for practice and policy. Lastly, the author identifies future trends in research, policy and practice. Drawing on a range of theories and concepts and proposing a working model that can impact on the training of future and current professionals, Religious Literary in Hospice Care should be considered essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners"--

Preface --Introduction --Part I. Our human contexts within nature.1.Ecologies of diversity: beyond religious and human exceptionalism /Katherine Keller --2.Measured ecological humanism of the Qur'an and international development: a comparative look /M. Ashraf Adeel --3.Modernity, secularism, and the exclusion of nature: why religion matters /Hassam S. Timani --4.Animal talk: what ethical lessons do animals teach on Aggadic Midrash about the environment? /Daniel Maoz --5.A vast net of interconnected diamonds: Buddhist view of nature /Tatjana Myoko V. Prittwitz --6.Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an ecological theologian /jamison Stallman --7.Pope Francis' encyclical and Catholic magisterial statements on ecological ethics /Nancy M. Rourke --Part II. Imperatives from sacred texts and traditions.8.Who will inherit God's world? the righteous of Sura 21 and Psalm 37 /Barbara Pemberton --9.Interreligious encounter in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament: models for the anthropocene /Richard C. Salter --10.Green book: Qur'anic teachings on creation and nature /Fatih Harpci --11.The protection of nature and the environment: a case for restoring 'Dharma' in the Hindu world /Narwaraj Chaulagain --Part III. Practicing the imperatives.12.Pope Francis, care for creation, and popular movements /Marvin L. Mich --13.Three sages: conversations on ecology /Monica Weis --14.Prospects for dialogue between Russian Orthodox and Muslims on the environmental crisis /Andrii Krawchuk --15.The flowering of India: a Mughal manifesto for environmentalism /Michael D. Calabria --16.Deforestation in the Congo Basin and global climate change: an ethic of environmental responsibility based on African spirituality /Leocadie Lushombo --g17.'That we may sow beauty': reading Jewish, Christian, and Muslim classics for interreligious dialogue about the environmental crisis /Elizabeth Adams-Eilers.

In Bearing Witness, Courtney S. Campbell draws on his experience as a teacher, scholar, and a bioethics consultant to propose an innovative interpretation of the significance of religious values and traditions for bioethics and health care. The book offers a distinctive exposition of a covenantal ethic of gift-response-responsibility-transformation that informs a quest for meaning in the profound choices that patients, families, and professionals face in creating, sustaining, and ending life. Campbell's account of "bearing witness" offers new understandings of formative ethical concepts, situates medicine as a calling and vocation rooted in concepts of healing, affirms professional commitments of presence for suffering and dying persons, and presents a prophetic critique of medical-assisted death. This book offers compelling critiques of secular models of medical professionalism and of individualistic assumptions that distort the physician-patient relationship. This innovative interpretation bears witness to the relevance of religious perspectives on an array of bioethical issues from new reproductive technologies to genetics to debates over end-of-life ethics and bears witness against the oddities of a market-oriented and consumerist vision of health care that is especially salient for an era of health-care reform. --

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism. This handbook is split into five distinct sections. The first section covers past and present debates regarding definitions, theories, and concepts related to religious and spiritual tourism. Subsequent sections focus on the supply and demand aspects of religious and spiritual tourism markets, and examine issues related to the management side of these markets around the world. Areas under examination include religious theme parks, the UNESCO branding of religious heritage, gender and performance, popular culture, pilgrimage, environmental impacts, and fear and terrorism, among many others. The final section explores emerging and future directions in religious and spiritual tourism, and proposes an agenda for further research. Interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content, this will be essential reading for all students, researchers, and academics interested in Tourism, Religion, Cultural Studies, and Heritage Studies