Human Rights and Responsibilities in World Religions (Library of Global Ethics & Religion)

contents......Page 8
illustrations......Page 12
contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Part I Secular and religious ethics......Page 28
1 Secular rights and religious responsibilities......Page 30
THE IDEA OF RIGHTS......Page 32
RIGHTS AND THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW......Page 35
RIGHTS AND THE RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW......Page 38
RELIGIOUS EXCLUSIVISM AND RELIGIOUS EGOISM......Page 39
THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN RIGHTS......Page 42
2 The synergy and interdependence of human rights, religion, and secularism......Page 48
WORKING DEFINITIONS AND THE FOUNDATION HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 49
REALITIES AND PROSPECTS OF SYNERGY AND INTERDEPENDENCE......Page 58
SYNERGY AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN THE ISLAMIC CONTEXT......Page 65
HOPE FOR AN UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT......Page 72
THE FUTURE AS AN OBJECT OF FAITH......Page 73
YAMA AND NIYAMA AND AHIMSA AS THEIR CENTER......Page 78
A FRIVOLOUS ALLEGORY OF THE OCEAN AND ITS VIEWERS......Page 84
RESPECTING WITHOUT EMBRACING......Page 85
4 The religious perspective: dignity as a foundation for human rights discourse......Page 88
RELIGION AND RIGHTS, DIGNITY, AND DUTY......Page 89
THE CONTRIBUTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY TO HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE......Page 93
CONCLUSION......Page 96
Part II Being human and having rights......Page 98
5 Rats, cockroaches, and people like us: view of humanity and human rights......Page 100
SOME VIEWS OF HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 101
CULTURAL RELATIVISM......Page 103
RELIGION AND CULTURE......Page 107
BEING HUMAN......Page 108
THE U.N. CHARTER AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION......Page 118
SELECTED PASSAGES FROM CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LEGAL TEXTS AND FROM REVERED MORAL TEXTS......Page 121
APPLICATION OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED PRINCIPLES TO CERTAIN PROBLEMS OF U.N. HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION......Page 129
CONCLUSION......Page 130
THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION......Page 136
HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELATIONSHIPS......Page 138
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS......Page 141
RIGHTS ON RELIGION......Page 146
Part III A declaration of human rights by the world's religions......Page 150
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLARATION......Page 152
UNIVERSALITY WITHOUT IMPERIALISM......Page 154
THE DECLARATION AS A WORKING DOCUMENT......Page 157
9 A universal declaration of human rights by the world's religions......Page 162
10 A universal declaration of human rights by the world's religions: A jewish perspective......Page 170
11 A christian response to the universal declaration of human rights by the world's religions......Page 180
PROLEGOMENON......Page 190
MUSLIMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 192
TOWARD A DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS......Page 196
13 Can one size fit all? indic perspectives on the declaration of human rights by the world's religions......Page 200
14 Interreligious dialogue, globalization, and human rights: buddhist reflections on interdependence and the declaration......Page 208
HUMAN RIGHTS AND WORLD RELIGIONS......Page 209
HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERFAITH DIALOGUE......Page 210
DIALOGUE, GLOBALIZATION, AND GUIDING INSTITUTIONS......Page 212
CONCLUSION......Page 214
15 Human rights and responsibilities: a confucian perspective on the universal declaration of human rights......Page 220
TOWARD A DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS......Page 225
Part IV Rights ans religious traditions......Page 228
16 A jewish perspective on human rights......Page 230
THEORETICAL GROUNDS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN JUDAISM......Page 231
SPECIFIC DEMANDS TO UPHOLD HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 236
ONE EXAMPLE: THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY......Page 237
HUMAN RIGHTS AS DIVINE RIGHTS......Page 245
17 Christian ethics and human rights......Page 254
HENKIN’S INDICTMENT AND CHALLENGE......Page 255
A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE......Page 258
BUDDHISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 268
AN IMPLICIT DOCTRINE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BUDDHISM?......Page 269
ADEQUATE TO THE DEMANDS OF BUDDHIST ETHICS?......Page 272
COMPATIBLE WITH BUDDHIST TEACHINGS?......Page 274
ARE BUDDHIST RIGHTS THE SAME AS WESTERN RIGHTS?......Page 275
CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 278
19 Rights, roles, and reciprocity in hindu dharma......Page 288
HIERARCHY AND COMPLEMENTARITY IN HINDU DHARMA......Page 291
THE RELIGIOUS JUSTIFICATION OF OPPRESSION......Page 294
RELIGIOUS CHALLENGES TO THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 296
A HINDU CALL TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES......Page 299
OVERVIEW HYPOTHESIS......Page 304
HUANG TSUNG-HSI......Page 307
P.C. CHANG......Page 313
21 The human rights commitment in modern islam......Page 322
COLONIALISM, APOLOGETICS, AND THE MUSLIM HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE......Page 325
PURITANISM, ANTI-WESTERNISM, AND EXCEPTIONALISM IN MUSLIM DISCOURSES......Page 329
THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITMENT AND AMBIGUITY IN ISLAM......Page 332
GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF HUMAN WELL-BEING......Page 335
SHARI‘A AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITMENT......Page 341
JUSTICE AS A CORE VALUE AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 348
THE RIGHTS OF GOD AND THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE......Page 352
ISLAM AND THE PROMISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 357
Select bibliography......Page 386
Index......Page 394