Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives

Coeditor, Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (Dordrecht/London/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996) (with Johan D. van der Vyver) (Abridged Chinese translation by Paul Liu, 2013)
Description

The world has cultivated the best of religious rights protections but still witnesses the worst of religious rights abuses. In this volume--the companion to Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives--Jimmy Carter, John Noonan Jr., and a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights laws and practices of the international community.
Table of Contents

  • ​Preface – Jimmy Carter
  • Perspectives on Religious Liberty: A Comparative Framework – W. Cole Durham, Jr.
  • Studying “Religious Human Rights:” Methodological Foundations – David Little
  • Religious Human Rights under the United Nations – Natan Lerner
  • The Roles of Secular Non-Governmental Organizations in the Cultivation and Understanding of Religious Human Rights – Michael Roan
  • The Cultivation and Protection of Religious Human Rights: The Role of the Media – James Finn
  • The Impact of Religious Rules on Public Life in Germany – Martin Heckel
  • Religious Liberty in the United Kingdom – Peter Cumper
  • The Main Problems of Religious Freedom in Eastern Europe – Tamas Földesi
  • Religious Human Rights in Post-Communist Balkan Countries – Paul Mojzes
  • Religious Rights in Russia at a Time of Tumultuous Transition: A Historical Theory – Harold J. Berman
  • Adjudicating Rights of Conscience under the European Convention on Human Rights – T. Jeremy Gunn
  • Religious Human Rights and the Principle of Legal Pluralism in the Middle East – Said Amir Arjomand
  • Religious Human Rights in the State of Israel – Asher Maoz
  • Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context – Makau wa Mutua
  • Religious Human Rights in South Africa – Lourens M. du Plessis
  • Religious Human Rights in Latin America – Paul E. Sigmund
  • Religious Human Rights in Central America – Stanley Muschett Ibarra
  • The American Constitutional Experiment in Religious Human Rights: The Perennial Search for Principles – John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green
  • A Draft Model Law on Freedom of Religion, With Commentary – Dinah Shelton and Alexandre Kiss
  • The Tensions and the Ideals – John T. Noonan
Reviews

“This handsomely-produced two volume compilation is probably the most substantial and wide-ranging treatment of the theme of religious human rights currently available.  Its purpose is to explore, not religious foundations for human rights in general, but religious theories of one particular class of human rights, namely rights to religious liberty.  It deserves to find a place on the shelves of any library of Christian ethics, comparative religion, law and politics.  The scholarly apparatus alone – eighty pages of bibliography and fifty pages of index – makes it a valuable reference text, and the lists of contributors read like a roll-call of many leading participants in the contemporary debate on religious liberty.  But quantity is amply matched with quality: a high standard of writing is maintained across all forty-two chapters.  The volumes are a product of a project on religion, democracy, and human rights, sponsored by Emory University’s “Law and Religion Program,” now established as a leading international center of excellence on this and related themes.”
-- Jonathan Chaplin, Journal of Law and Religion
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Chinese Abridged Translation 2013