Human Rights and the World's Major Religions.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (514 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798216099949
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- PART I: THE JEWISH TRADITION -- ONE: "Judaism" and Human Rights in the Greco-Roman World -- TWO: Human Rights in the Medieval Halachah -- JUDICIAL PROCEDURE -- PUNISHMENT -- HUMAN DIGNITY -- WOMEN -- CONCLUSION -- THREE: Human Rights in Practice: The Liberal Jewish Tradition in North America -- BEGINNINGS AND EARLY GROWTH -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE CIVIL WAR AND THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY -- THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MIGRATION -- CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEWISH THOUGHT ON HUMAN RIGHTS -- PART II: THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION -- FOUR: Christian Theological Foundations of Human Rights -- THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS IN THE BIBLE -- FURTHER THEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- WITHIN SPECIFIC CONFESSIONAL TRADITIONS -- FROM RIGHTS TO RESPONSIBILITIES -- A SUMMARY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION -- FIVE: Religious Liberty: The Cornerstone of Human Rights -- EARLY CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENTS -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DECLARATIONS -- SUMMARY -- SIX: Christian Responses to the United Nations Declarations -- BACKGROUND TO THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION -- THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY RESPONDS FORMALLY -- INDIVIDUAL PROTESTANT RESPONSES -- SUMMARY -- PART III: THE ISLAMIC TRADITION -- SEVEN: The Worldview of Islam -- THE KORAN AND HUMANITY -- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: FROM PRECONCEPTION TO ADULTHOOD -- HUJJAT AL ISLAM -- ISLAM AND THE FAMILY -- THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PLURALISM IN ISLAM -- ISLAM AND NATURE -- EIGHT: Decline, Colonial Domination, and the Quest for Revival and Reconstruction -- DECLINE AND DECAY: SOME INTERNAL FACTORS -- COLONIAL DOMINATION AND THE ACCELERATION OF SOCIOPOLITICAL DISINTEGRATION -- TRIAL AND ERROR IN THE SEARCH FOR REVIVAL AND RECONSTRUCTION -- NINE: Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights -- PART IV: THE HINDU TRADITION.
TEN: Are There Human Rights in Hinduism? -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UN DECLARATION -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND HINDUISM -- ELEVEN: Dharma (Duty) and Human Rights -- THE MEANING OF DHARMA FOR HINDUS -- SPECIFIC DHARMA AND UNIVERSAL DHARMA -- RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON DHARMA AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TWELVE: Individual and Collective Rights -- THIRTEEN: Untouchables and Human Rights -- UNTOUCHABILITY PRIOR TO 1920 -- DEVELOPMENTS FROM 1920-1932 AND THE POONA PACT -- THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE AND THE POONA PACT -- THE CHANGING POSITIONS OF GANDHI AND AMBEDKAR, 1933-1947 -- GANDHI'S CHANGING POSITIONS ON CASTE -- PART V: THE BUDDHIST TRADITION -- FOURTEEN : Are There Human Rights in Buddhism? -- INTRODUCTION -- GROUNDING RIGHTS IN BUDDHISM, SOURCES -- THE BIRTHRIGHT OF KARMA AND GROUNDING HUMAN RIGHTS -- THAILAND: PHRA PRAYUDH PAYUTTO ON HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE FOUR HOLY TRUTHS: INTRODUCTION -- CAN THE FOUR HOLY TRUTHS GROUND HUMAN RIGHTS? KEOWN, IHARA, AND JUNGER -- BUDDHA AND HUMAN RIGHTS: ROBERT A. F. THURMAN -- FEELINGS, MEDITATION, AND RIGHTS -- FIFTEEN: Human Rights as Skillful Means -- BODHISATTVA PATH AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE JATAKA OF HARITA AND THE PERFECTION OF MORALITY -- THE JATAKA OF KSANTIVADIN AND THE PERFECTIONS OF FORBEARANCE -- THE JATAKA OF VESSANTARA AND THE PERFECTION OF GIVING -- THE JATAKA OF KING SIVI AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE NATURE OF THE BODHISATTVA -- HUMAN RIGHTS AS SKILLFUL MEANS -- SOME POSITIVE BUDDHIST ALTERNATIVES TO HUMAN RIGHTS -- SIXTEEN: State, Society, and the Buddhist Order -- KING, SOCIETY, AND RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES -- BUDDHA AND THE MILITARY -- THE WHEEL-TURNING KING AND EMPEROR ASOKA -- SEVENTEEN: Buddhism and Caste -- CASTE IN BUDDHIST SRI LANKA -- CASTE AND BUDDHISM IN JAPAN -- CASTE IN BUDDHIST TIBET.
BUDDHISM VERSUS CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA, THE WORK OF DR. AMBEDKAR -- Notes -- Sources Relating to Religious Traditions and Human Rights -- Human Rights Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author and Editor.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- PART I: THE JEWISH TRADITION -- ONE: "Judaism" and Human Rights in the Greco-Roman World -- TWO: Human Rights in the Medieval Halachah -- JUDICIAL PROCEDURE -- PUNISHMENT -- HUMAN DIGNITY -- WOMEN -- CONCLUSION -- THREE: Human Rights in Practice: The Liberal Jewish Tradition in North America -- BEGINNINGS AND EARLY GROWTH -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE CIVIL WAR AND THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY -- THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MIGRATION -- CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEWISH THOUGHT ON HUMAN RIGHTS -- PART II: THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION -- FOUR: Christian Theological Foundations of Human Rights -- THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS IN THE BIBLE -- FURTHER THEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- WITHIN SPECIFIC CONFESSIONAL TRADITIONS -- FROM RIGHTS TO RESPONSIBILITIES -- A SUMMARY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION -- FIVE: Religious Liberty: The Cornerstone of Human Rights -- EARLY CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENTS -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DECLARATIONS -- SUMMARY -- SIX: Christian Responses to the United Nations Declarations -- BACKGROUND TO THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION -- THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY RESPONDS FORMALLY -- INDIVIDUAL PROTESTANT RESPONSES -- SUMMARY -- PART III: THE ISLAMIC TRADITION -- SEVEN: The Worldview of Islam -- THE KORAN AND HUMANITY -- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: FROM PRECONCEPTION TO ADULTHOOD -- HUJJAT AL ISLAM -- ISLAM AND THE FAMILY -- THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PLURALISM IN ISLAM -- ISLAM AND NATURE -- EIGHT: Decline, Colonial Domination, and the Quest for Revival and Reconstruction -- DECLINE AND DECAY: SOME INTERNAL FACTORS -- COLONIAL DOMINATION AND THE ACCELERATION OF SOCIOPOLITICAL DISINTEGRATION -- TRIAL AND ERROR IN THE SEARCH FOR REVIVAL AND RECONSTRUCTION -- NINE: Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights -- PART IV: THE HINDU TRADITION.

TEN: Are There Human Rights in Hinduism? -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UN DECLARATION -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND HINDUISM -- ELEVEN: Dharma (Duty) and Human Rights -- THE MEANING OF DHARMA FOR HINDUS -- SPECIFIC DHARMA AND UNIVERSAL DHARMA -- RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON DHARMA AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TWELVE: Individual and Collective Rights -- THIRTEEN: Untouchables and Human Rights -- UNTOUCHABILITY PRIOR TO 1920 -- DEVELOPMENTS FROM 1920-1932 AND THE POONA PACT -- THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE AND THE POONA PACT -- THE CHANGING POSITIONS OF GANDHI AND AMBEDKAR, 1933-1947 -- GANDHI'S CHANGING POSITIONS ON CASTE -- PART V: THE BUDDHIST TRADITION -- FOURTEEN : Are There Human Rights in Buddhism? -- INTRODUCTION -- GROUNDING RIGHTS IN BUDDHISM, SOURCES -- THE BIRTHRIGHT OF KARMA AND GROUNDING HUMAN RIGHTS -- THAILAND: PHRA PRAYUDH PAYUTTO ON HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE FOUR HOLY TRUTHS: INTRODUCTION -- CAN THE FOUR HOLY TRUTHS GROUND HUMAN RIGHTS? KEOWN, IHARA, AND JUNGER -- BUDDHA AND HUMAN RIGHTS: ROBERT A. F. THURMAN -- FEELINGS, MEDITATION, AND RIGHTS -- FIFTEEN: Human Rights as Skillful Means -- BODHISATTVA PATH AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE JATAKA OF HARITA AND THE PERFECTION OF MORALITY -- THE JATAKA OF KSANTIVADIN AND THE PERFECTIONS OF FORBEARANCE -- THE JATAKA OF VESSANTARA AND THE PERFECTION OF GIVING -- THE JATAKA OF KING SIVI AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE NATURE OF THE BODHISATTVA -- HUMAN RIGHTS AS SKILLFUL MEANS -- SOME POSITIVE BUDDHIST ALTERNATIVES TO HUMAN RIGHTS -- SIXTEEN: State, Society, and the Buddhist Order -- KING, SOCIETY, AND RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES -- BUDDHA AND THE MILITARY -- THE WHEEL-TURNING KING AND EMPEROR ASOKA -- SEVENTEEN: Buddhism and Caste -- CASTE IN BUDDHIST SRI LANKA -- CASTE AND BUDDHISM IN JAPAN -- CASTE IN BUDDHIST TIBET.

BUDDHISM VERSUS CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA, THE WORK OF DR. AMBEDKAR -- Notes -- Sources Relating to Religious Traditions and Human Rights -- Human Rights Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author and Editor.

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