Religion and human rights : global challenges from intercultural perspectives / edited by Wilhelm Gräb and Lars Charbonnier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gräb, Wilhelm, editor.

Charbonnier, Lars, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Religious aspects.

Human rights.

Globalization.

Human rights--South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless, there is consensus that the Christian tradition – especially the doctrine that each human being is an image of God – played an important role within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the period of enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle against the politics of apartheid in South Africa was strongly supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups referring to the Human Rights. Christian churches and other religious groups do still play an important role in the post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning all the challenges with which the multiethnic and economically still deeply divided South African society is faced with. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Human Rights and Globalization

The Sacredness of the Person

The “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”: A Confessional Basis of a Universal Religion?

Limits of the Culturally Relative View of Human Rights

Human Dignity and Human Rights

Homo Aestheticus within the Framework of Inhabitational Theology

Human dignity, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Exclusion?

“Whose Law?” South African Struggles with Notions of Justice

The Role of the Church in Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa

HIV and AIDS as a Human Rights Challenge to Faith Communities in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

The Role of the Eucharist in Human Dignity: a South African Story

Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110384710

311038471X

9783110348651

3110348659

OCLC:

894114699