Religion and rights : the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2008 / edited by Wes Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Wes, editor.

Series:

Oxford Amnesty lectures.

Manchester Religious Studies

Oxford Amnesty lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Religious aspects.

Human rights.

Religious tolerance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 161 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the revealed truths from which religions derive their authority. Many people's sense of human worth and dignity nevertheless depends on recognising the divine in each of us. Where rights and revelation diverge, how can the differences be negotiated? How should we measure individual claims to freedom against the demands of religious traditions? In this volume, eminent theologians and anthropologists set out the terms of religion's holds on its own truths, while historians, philosophers, and activists set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. Their respondents join the debate with fierce conviction, indicating their doubts and concerns in relation to the often compatible but sometimes competing claims of religion and rights.

Contents:

Rights and religion : spaces for argument and agreement / Wendy James

Race, faith and freedom in American and British history / Simon Schama

Response to Simon Schama / Matthew Spooner

Pentecost : learning the languages of peace / Stanley Hauerwas

Response to Stanley Hauerwas / Pamela Sue Anderson

Human rights in the Roman Catholic tradition / Charles E. Curran

Response to Charles E. Curran / Nicholas Bamforth

Worldviews and universalisms : the doctrine of "religion" in Islam and the idea of "rights" in the West / Hisham A. Hellyer

Response to Hisham A. Hellyer / Chris Miller

Terror and religion / Ronald Dworkin

Response to Ronald Dworkin / John Tasioulas

Can human rights accommodate pluralism? / Chantal Mouffe

Response to Chantal Mouffe / Stuart White

Symposium : freedom of belief, freedom from belief. The tolerance policy : way out or compromise? / Asma Jahangir; Religion and rights / A. C. Grayling; Freedom and human rights / John Pritchard; The right to believe / Andrew Brown; Out with "religion": a novel framing of the religion debate / Emma Cohen.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

0-7190-9521-2

OCLC:

960166195