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Faith in human rights : support in religious traditions for a global struggle

"Despite the diversity of religious faith traditions around the world, a common concern has led to a remarkably unified call for establishing and respecting human rights from Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and followers of indigenous African and Asian traditions. Indeed, the expression "faith in human rights," first used in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, regularly appears in statements by human rights advocates who express no particular religious commitment." "In this first comprehensive study of the subject, Professor Robert Traer argues from empirical evidence that contemporary human rights discourse, which is global in scope, contains an affirmation of faith that has in fact united members of different religious traditions and cultures with secular humanists in a common struggle to establish human rights as the basis for human dignity." "Scholars in the fields of religion and law as well as human rights advocates will find in this book a summary of human rights discourse within the major religious traditions of the world. Its combination of sharp focus and broad scope will also make it of particular interest to students of comparative religious ethics. Book jacket."--Jacket
eBook, English, 1991
Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1991
1 online resource (xii, 239 pages)
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pt. 1. Christian support for human rights. Liberal Protestants
Roman Catholics
Conservative Protestants
The world church
A Christian consensus
pt. 2. Support in other religious traditions. Jews
Muslims
Hindus and Buddhists
Africans
Asians
pt. 3. Faith in human rights. The cornerstone
The common good
A global faith
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010