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.

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.

scholarly journals DIALEKTIKA MANUSIA DAN AGAMA

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Muh. Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious People ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Dogma ◽  
Sharp Criticism ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Ideal

<p>The existence and role of religion (Islam) get a sharp criticism, which essentially needs a re-examination of religious dogma that has been frozen, if religion does not want to be abandoned by the swift stream of modernization. Truly the religion God revealed to the earth is for man. So religion is born to man, not man born to religion. If man is born to religion, then the most prominent is his transcendent dimension, the religious world from which he came, far from the earth. If so, then humans enter into the world aIkoholistik-theocentric, intoxicated. Factors that cause humans away from the ideal message of the Qur'an is a factor understanding of religion. A series of worship conducted by religious people such as prayer, zakat, fasting, pilgrimage, and the like only stop at the point of carrying out obligations (fiqh oriented) and become a symbol of piety, while the fruits of worship that dimensi sosial less visible. Among religious communities, there has been a misunderstanding in interpreting and appreciating and appreciating the symbolic message. As a result, religion is understood only as an individual savior and not as a social blessing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Eksistensi dan peran agama (Islam) mendapatkan kritik tajam, yang intinya perlu adanya pengkajian ulang terhadap dogma agama yang selama ini telah membeku, jika agama tidak ingin ditinggalkan begitu saja oleh derasnya arus modernisasi. Sesungguhnya agama itu diturunkan Tuhan ke bumi memang untuk manusia. Jadi agama lahir untuk manusia, bukan manusia lahir untuk agama. Jika manusia lahir untuk agama, maka yang pal­ing menonjol adalah dimensi transendennya, dunia agama tempat asal ia turun, jauh dari bumi. Jika demikian, maka manusia masuk kedalam dunia <strong>a</strong>Ikoholistik-teosentris, mabuk ketuhanan. Faktor yang menyebabkan manusia jauh dari pesan ideal al Quran adalah faktor pemahaman terhadap agama. Serangkaian ibadah yang dilakukan umat beragama (Islam) seperti shalat, zakat, puasa, haji, dan sejenisnya hanya berhenti pada sebatas menjalankan kewajiban (fiqh oriented) dan menjadi simbol kesalehan, sedangkan buah ibadah yang berdimensi sosial kurang nampak. Di kalangan masyarakat beragama, telah terjadi kesalahpahaman dalam memaknai dan menghayati serta mengapresiasi pesan simbolik itu. Akibatnya, agama hanya di pahami sebagai penyelamat individu dan bukan sebagai keberkahan sosial.</p><p> </p>

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.

Concept and Context: Mercy in Criminal and Civil Law, Human Rights Law, Religious Law, and Divine Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-65
Author(s):  
David Shirt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Divine Law

Written during the ‘Year of Mercy’ (2016) proclaimed by Pope Francis, this study examines the role of mercy from the perspective of law codes. State law, human rights law, and religious law can all be vehicles of mercy—though seeming to require that the recipient meets any necessary ‘deserving’ criteria. This study argues that divine law reaches beyond notions of innocence or repentance, and directs mankind to follow the example of divine love, in being ‘unconditionally’ concerned with the welfare of the ‘other’, and posits that mercy, when tempered in the interests of social cohesion, or shown for the sake of earthly or heavenly reward, whilst endorsed in a variety of religious texts, falls short of the ideal which Aquinas refers to as ‘the supreme virtue in man’.

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

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTRACEPTIVE APPROVAL AMONG RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN PAKISTAN

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 587-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMAL ABDUL NASIR ◽  
ANDREW HINDE
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Reproductive Decisions ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Ideal

SummaryResearch is needed to understand the role of religion in family planning dynamics, particularly in societies where the views of religious leaders can be an important influence on the reproductive decisions of individuals. This paper attempts to describe the factors associated with approval of contraception among religious leaders in Pakistan. The data are taken from the 1999–2000 Survey of Perception of Religious Leaders about Population Welfare. Regression modelling shows that whether or not religious leaders approve of family planning is associated with their views on the ideal family size, their level of religious education, the specific religious sect to which they belong, their own knowledge and use of family planning, their exposure to television and the region of the country in which they live.

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