Thursday, August 6, 2009
Human Rights from a Religious Perspective
If any of you out there are interested in pursuing this topic, you may find this list of some use as a point of departure. (Not that I'm trying to "explain" anything to Rick G. or anyone else, mind you!)
Dan Cohn-Sherbok,
ed., World Religions and Human
Liberation (Orbis, 1992)
Carrie
Gustafson & Peter Juviler, eds., Religion
and Human Rights: Competing Claims?
(Sharpe, 1999)
Louis Henkin
et al., Discussion: Religion and Human Rights, Journal of Religious Ethics 26:2 (Fall
1998) 227-68
David
Hollenbach, Claims in Conflict: Retrieving and Renewing the Catholic Human
Rights Tradition (Paulist, 1979)
David
Hollenbach, Justice, Peace, & Human
Rights: American Catholic Social Ethics
in a Pluralistic Context (Crossroad, 1988)
David
Hollenbach, The Global Face of Public
Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and
Christian Ethics (
John Kelsay
& Sumner B. Twiss, eds., Religion
and Human Rights (Project on Religion and Human Rights, 1994)
Hans Kung
& Jurgen Moltmann, eds., The Ethics
of World Religions and Human Rights, Concilium
1990/2
George
Newlands, Christ and Human Rights
(Ashgate, 2006)
Leroy S.
Rouner, ed., Human Rights and the
World’s Religions (Notre Dame, 1988)
Roger Ruston,
Human Rights and the Image of God
(SCM, 2004)
Max L.
Stackhouse, Creeds, Society, and Human
Rights: A Study in Three Cultures
(Eerdmans, 1984)
Arlene
Swidler, ed., Human Rights in Religious
Traditions (Pilgrim, 1982)
Robert Traer,
Faith in Human Rights: Support in Religious Traditions for a Global
Struggle (Georgetown
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