The Role of Religion in Society, and Its Relation to the Attitudes Towards Human Rights in Chile

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Silva ◽  
Jorge Manzi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Role Of Religion

Studying Human Rights in the Middle East: Lingua Franca of Global Politics or Forked Tongue of Donors?

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Allen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Local Tradition ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Role Of Religion

The study of human rights has gone through many phases, and the boom in the scholarly industry of human rights studies has yielded many subspecialties, including human rights in particular regions and the intersections of human rights with different religious traditions. One principal area of discussion likely to be of interest to readers of this journal has been the question of Muslim women's human rights and the role of religion in this respect. The problem was often presented as primarily an ideological one, a conflict between a local tradition, Islam, and the global demands for human rights.

Litigating Religions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher McCrudden
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Religious Dress ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religion In Public Life

Religions are a problem for human rights, and human rights are a problem for religions. And both are problems for courts. This essay presents an interpretation of how religion and human rights interrelate in the legal context, and how this relationship might be reconceived to make this relationship somewhat less fraught. It examines how the resurgent role of religion in public life gives rise to tensions with key aspects of human rights doctrine, including freedom of religion and anti-discrimination law, and how these tensions cannot be considered as simply transitional. The context for the discussion is the increasingly troubled area of human rights litigation involving religious arguments, such as wearing religious dress at work, conscientious objections by marriage registrars, admission of children to religious schools, prohibitions on same-sex marriage, and access to abortion. This essay examines doctrinal developments in these areas, where standoffs between organized religions and human rights advocates in the courts have been common. The essay argues that, if we wish to establish a better dialogue between the contending views, we must first identify a set of recurring problems identifiable in such litigation. But to address these recurring problems requires more than simply identifying these problems and requires changes both in human rights theory and in religious understandings of human rights. The essay argues that, by paying close attention to developments in human rights litigation, we can make theoretical progress.

Progress, Human Rights and Peace in Luigi Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Howard Williams
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Perpetual Peace ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractIn recent decades a great deal of attention has been given to Kant’s writings on politics as presenting a possible path to lasting peace. In this literature too high an expectation is created over what Kant’s cosmopolitan thinking might achieve. Caranti’s book provides an excellent antidote to these speculations by spelling out clearly the implications of Kant’s peace theory. I suggest there may even be better ways for understanding the guarantee of perpetual peace, the role of religion and the ideal of the moral politician than Caranti maintains.

Religious Freedom and Human Rights in Kazakhstan

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-127
Author(s):  
Roman Podoprigora ◽  
Nurlan Apakhayev ◽  
Aizhan Zhatkanbayeva ◽  
Dina Baimakhanova ◽  
Elina P Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Church Relationships ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract Many post-Soviet governments are still unable to identify the attitude to religious freedom and religious activity. The human rights trend adjoins with a very suspicious attitude to the religious phenomena as a relic of the Soviet regime of the state–church relationships. Moreover, the professional communities and society as a whole were not appropriately prepared for the religious diversity or the new role of religion in public and private life. This article discusses why the government is very careful in the regulation of religious processes. The article also explains the reasons of inattention by Kazakhstani lawyers to human rights and religious issues and analyses the situation regarding religious freedom within frames of existing legislation in Kazakhstan.

scholarly journals Agama di Ruang Publik Politik

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Muhammad Dawam Rahardjo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion

ABSTRACT: The question of the role of religion in the public sphere of politics is because of its history, the three monotheist religions, which is also called the Abrahamic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and even Hinduism and Buddhism, in maintaining their existences and developments, always get into and even form their own power in a country. Indonesia is a secular nation state, which is not based on any particular religion as a political ideology, and yet its people are multi-religious. Even though the country is not based on religion, but religion has become a source of inspiration in its constitution, namely UUD (Undang Undang Dasar) 1945. On the one hand, people and the state are in unity for mutual support or mutual need. The state cannot be formed without people as its base. On the other hand, people need the state to protect the society. Constitution is needed to control the state and its leader. On the one hand this constitution curbs the power of its leader; and on the other hand it guarantees the fulfillment and the protection of civil rights that stem from human rights. The triangle of these institutions is a reality in the current modern world, especially in Indonesia, where religion has an important role, even though in Europe the stand and the role of religion is in the declining stage due to secularization and secularism principle. Yet the relationship of these three institutions in the current modern context cause a complex issues related to the boundaries of these three institutions. What are the principles that can continuously connects these three so that justice as the main principle can be uphold between the triangle of society, state and religion?KEY WORDS: religion, public sphere, nation, civil rights, human rights

The Role of Religion in Establishing Peaceful Coexistence in Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zaman Nazi ◽  
◽  
Farman Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Role Of Religion

Ivan Ozhienko about the role of religion in Ukrainian national life

2001 ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
K. Nedzelsky
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Dedicated Service ◽  
National Life ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Spiritual Unity

Ivan Ogienko (1882-1972), also known as Metropolitan Hilarion, devoted much attention to the role and place of religion in the national life of Ukrainians and their ethnic identity in their scholarly and theological works. Without exaggeration it can be argued that the problem of national unity of the Ukrainian people is one of the key principles of all historiosophical considerations of the famous scholar and theologian. If the purpose of the spiritual life of a Ukrainian, according to his views, is to serve God, then the purpose of state or terrestrial life is the dedicated service to his people. The purpose of heaven and the purpose of the earthly paths, intersecting in the life of a certain group of people through the lives of its individual representatives, give rise to a unique alliance of spiritual unity, the name of which is "people" or "nation." Religion (faith) in the process of transforming the anarchist crowd into a spiritually integrated and orderly national integrity serves as the transformer of the imperfect nature of the human soul into perfect.

The essence and causes of the spiritual and moral decline of mankind in the XX century

1998 ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
V. Tolkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Social Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Religion

One of the most important reasons for such a clearly distressed state of society was the decline of religion as a social force, the external manifestation of which is the weakening of religious institutions. "Religion," Baha'u'llah writes, "is the greatest of all means of establishing order in the world to the universal satisfaction of those who live in it." The weakening of the foundations of religion strengthened the ranks of ignoramuses, gave them impudence and arrogance. "I truly say that everything that belittles the supreme role of religion opens way for the revelry of maliciousness, inevitably leading to anarchy. " In another Tablet, He says: "Religion is a radiant light and an impregnable fortress that ensures the safety and well-being of the peoples of the world, for God-fearing induces man to adhere to the good and to reject all evil." Blink the light of religion, and chaos and distemper will set in, the radiance of justice, justice, tranquility and peace. "

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