Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?

by Carrie Gustafson and Peter H. Juviler

Much has been written about the issue of religious freedom and church-state relations. The contributors to this book, however, take up another side of the question: what has been the impact of religion on human rights. Representatives from various religious traditions address a broad range of topics, from environmental rights to the basic validation of human rights, to the rights of women in India and Iran and within Orthodox Judaism, to the global...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076560261X
• ISBN13: 9780765602619
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary