Overview
- Offers reflections from experts on a hotly debated issue
- Shows how human rights and religion are discussed in the public sphere and experienced by young people
- Describes tensions and conflicts and offers relevant questions for future research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book examines the relationship between human rights and religiosity. It discusses whether the impact of religiosity on human rights is liberational or suppressive, and sheds light on the direction in which the relationship between religion and human rights is expected to develop. The questions explored in this volume are: Which are the rights that are currently debated or under pressure? What is the position on human rights that churches and religious communities represent? Are there tensions between churches, religious communities and the state? Which rights are especially relevant for young people and which relate to adolescents life-world experiences? Covering 17 countries, the book describes two separate, yet connected studies. The first study presents research by experts from individual countries describing the state of human rights and neuralgic points anticipated in individual societies. The other study presents specific findings on the relationship between these two social phenomena from empirical research in a population of high school students. Studying this particular population allows insights into social trends, value systems and attitudes on human rights, as well as an indication of the likely directions of development, and potential room for intervention.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Hans-Georg Ziebertz is professor for Practical Theology / Religious Education at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is the coordinator of the international research program Religion and Human Rights. Dr. Gordan Crpic is professor for Sociology and Vice-Rector of the Catholic University in Zagreb, Croatia, and he is member of the international research program Religion and Human Rights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion and Human Rights
Book Subtitle: An International Perspective
Editors: Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Gordan Črpić
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09731-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09730-5Published: 26 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36335-6Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09731-2Published: 13 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 206
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Human Rights, Sociology of Culture, Religion and Education