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Human rights or religious rules? /
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 li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Empirical research in religion and human rights ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, functions 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 h. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 473 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004188860 900418886X 9789004183049 9004183043 1282786849 9781282786844 |