RELIGIOUS VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FEATURES OF CORRELATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Iryna Kondratieva

The features of understanding nature and essence of human rights in different religions, specific of intercommunication of traditional religious values and human rights in the context of modern realities are considered in the article. The author analyzed the religious conceptions of human rights (on the examples of world religions) in their correlation with the existent approaches to the problems of human rights which have liberal basis and find their reflection in international documents and decisions of competent international institutes. It is determined that the problem of contradictory interrelation of religious ideas, norms and values and human rights in the context of modern realities is at the intersection of research interests of representatives of different spheres of religious, humanitarian and law knowledge. The basic values of the world's leading religious traditions play a significant role in shaping a kind of universal system of human rights. At the same time, the world religions pay close attention to the development of their own conceptions of human rights, which correlate accordingly with modern liberal theories of human rights. Religious doctrines in this context differ in some important aspects, the basic principles of existing religions often do not coincide due to several fundamental points, such as the religious traditions of individual regions. The relationship between religion beliefs and human rights in Europe is dynamic and sometimes are going through appropriate transformations. This evolution is connected, in particular, with the formation of the concept of human rights in its liberal version. Religious vision of the basic rights of human person is based primarily on the fundamental religious principles of a religion. At the same time, modern religious conceptions of human rights are sometimes a kind of reaction to liberal versions of the interpretation of this issue. As a result, religious interpretations of human rights show a certain correlation with a range of important provisions of international human rights law, and religious concepts emphasize the differences, the uniqueness of the vision of human rights inherent in a particular religious tradition. The article emphasizes that there is no single religious view of human rights, more often it is about specific religious, confessional approaches to this problem, with existing differences in different religious traditions.

Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-immolation is mired in controversies regarding religious roots, nomenclature, motives, and valor. Although the admiration ebbs and flows, at least some idealization of such elective deaths is discernible in every religious tradition treated in this volume. Traditional support ranges from tales of ascetic heroes who conquer personal passions to save others by dying, to tales of righteous warriors who suffer and die valiantly while challenging the status quo. While the lionization of elective death is a persistent theme in world religions, just as persistent are disputes about the core notions that justify it, such as altruism, heroism, and religion itself. This volume offers critical analyses by renowned scholars with the literary and historical tools to tackle the contested issue of religiously sanctioned suicide. Three chapters treat contemporary phenomena with disputed classical roots (chapters on Salafist Jihadists, on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, and on the Branch Davidians and Heavens' Gate), while eleven focus on classical religious literatures which variously celebrate and disparage figures who invite self-harm to the point of corporeal death (chapters on Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Sikh, Tamil, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Daoist traditions, as well as on their diverse branches and special expressions). Overall, the volume offers astute scholarly insights which counter the axiom that religious traditions simply and always embrace life at any cost.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Akramun Nisa

This research tries to understand the meaning of character education on the religious tradition of West Papua Muslim community. To process of data collection, the researcher using an interviews, observation and documentation. The results show that from the eight religious traditions analyzed there are ten values of character education. Of the ten values of character education is dominated by religious values and appreciation value especially in the tradition of safar bath, drum sahur, night warning lailatu qadr, implementation of aqiqah and qurban, maulid derivative and maulid fakalah, tombormark and tradition of picking preacher. The learning of character education based on local wisdom is in fact an alternative consideration in teaching and inculcating the values of wisdom in the minds, paradigms, and beliefs of learners by emphasizing the hearts and minds in shaping the characters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Vera Lúcia VIEGAS-LIQUIDATO

RESUMENEn este trabajo se hará inicialmente una evolución histórica del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, tomando el marco teórico referencial de Karel Vasak, Norberto Bobbio y Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, para abordar la discusión del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos en generaciones / dimensiones. A continuación se abordarán el estado de arte, límites y desafíos del derecho fundamental del extranjero privado de la libertad a la asistencia consular. Se plantearán cuestiones como, si al privado de la libertad no se le ofreció asistencia consular, qué implicaciones generaría para la garantía del debido proceso legal e incluso la posibilidad de la nulidad de una sentencia penal condenatoria. Se analizará jurisprudencia internacional al respecto, incluida la opinión consultiva de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. PALABRAS-CLAVE: Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos; Derechos Fundamentales de la Persona Humana; Derecho a la asistencia consular; Garantías del debido proceso legal. RESUMONeste trabalho far-se-á, inicialmente, uma evolução histórica do direito internacional dos direitos humanos, utilizando-se o referencial teórico de Karel Vasak, Norberto Bobbio e Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, para pautar a discussão do direito internacional dos direitos humanos em gerações/dimensões. Em seguida, analisar-seão os desafios, limites, estado de arte, do direito fundamental do preso estrangeiro à assistência consular. Levantar-se-ão questões como, caso ao preso estrangeiro não lhe tenha sido oferecida a assistência consular, as implicações que isso geraria para as garantias do devido processo legal e até mesmo para a nulidade de uma sentença penal condenatória. Considerar-se-á jurisprudência internacional a respeito, incluindo a opinião Consultiva da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos; Direitos Fundamentais da Pessoa Humana; Direito à assistência consular; Garantias do devido processo legal. ABSTRACTIn this work, initially, a historical evolution of the international law of the human rights will be made, using the theoretical reference of Karel Vasak, Norberto Bobbio and Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, to guide the discussion of international law of the human rights in generations / dimensions. Afterwards, will be analyzed the challenges, limits, state of art, the fundamental right of the foreign detainee to consular assistance. Questions will arise as, if the detainee has not been notified of his right to consular assistance, the implications that this would generate for the guarantees of the due process of law. International law cases will be considered, including the Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. KEYWORDS: International Human Rights Law; Fundamental Rights of the Human Person; Right to consular assistance; Guarantees of the due process of law.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-187
Author(s):  
Ugo Dessì

Abstract This article analyzes a few selected case studies from different religious traditions in contemporary Japan to illustrate, first, the active role played by religion in Japan in the creation of hybrid forms and, secondly, the potentiality in two instances to promote cultural chauvinism. The topics explored here are Japanese Buddhism and the issue of human rights, Shintō’s self-representation as a ‘religion of the forest,’ and Kōfuku no Kagaku’s adoption of Theosophical themes. The discourse of human rights found in traditions such as Jōdo Shinshū, Jōdoshū, and Sōtōshū shows how this western idea is made to resonate with religious concepts from the Buddhist tradition, thus making possible a reshaping of local religious identities. While in this case the catalyst in the process is provided by an external source, the recent reshaping of Shintō as a ‘religion of the forest’ may be characterized as a glocalization leaning to ‘native’ sources, in which the ‘native’ religious tradition is subject to a creative reading following the worldwide growing awareness of ecology. Here a tendency to emphasize the superiority of the ‘native’ culture may also be noticed. However, as the case of Kōfuku no Kagaku’s adoption of various Theosophical themes illustrates, also glocalization leaning to external sources may be accompanied by forms of cultural chauvinism.


Author(s):  
Van Duffel Siegfried

This article examines long-standing debates in moral philosophy that are relevant to international human rights law. It discusses the political conception of human rights and the four challenges to moral philosophy which include the notion that no particular religious tradition or particular comprehensive doctrine (or morality) grounded human rights and the belief that natural rights theories end up misrepresenting and narrowing the scope of human rights. This article also highlights the importance of the work of moral philosophers to the understanding of contemporary human rights and explains that the traditions of natural rights theories still influence contemporary human rights language in profound ways.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Felipe LÓPEZ LATORRE

AbstractThis article presents three arguments on why businesses have direct obligations under existing international law. Nevertheless, in the present state of international law, the obligations of businesses are limited and wholly dependent on the state’s further action of implementation and enforcement. To reach this conclusion, the article asserts that businesses have partial legal personality in international law; that legal obligations and the enforcement model must be distinguished as two separate issues; and that human rights are requirements of justice that emanate from the dignity of each human person to any social actor, including businesses and other non-state actors. The article attempts to contribute to the debate about a binding instrument on business and human rights and presents an alternative understanding of international law that can assist domestic tribunals in applying international human rights standards to businesses as they carry out activities in their jurisdictions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Carlos Soriano Cienfuegos

This note supports the hypothesis that democratization and openness to international human rights law in Mexico brought about a structural change in its constitutional principles. This was mainly the result of substantially transforming the meaning - and especially the scope - legally given to political rights. The change from prerogatives to rights is not only a matter of nomenclature, but also a 180-degree shift, at both practical and epistemological levels. In addition to this, the project to establish a Ius Constitutionale Commune in the region, based on human rights standards, has been an equally important change as it has placed the human person at the heart of the matter.


2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (37) ◽  
pp. e2109650118
Author(s):  
Cindel J. M. White ◽  
Michael Muthukrishna ◽  
Ara Norenzayan

Cultural evolutionary theories suggest that world religions have consolidated beliefs, values, and practices within a superethnic cultural identity. It follows that affiliation with religious traditions would be reliably associated with global variation in cultural traits. To test this hypothesis, we measured cultural distance between religious groups within and between countries, using the Cultural Fixation Index (CFST) applied to the World Values Survey (88 countries, n = 243,118). Individuals who shared a religious tradition and level of commitment to religion were more culturally similar, both within and across countries, than those with different affiliations and levels of religiosity, even after excluding overtly religious values. Moreover, distances between denominations within a world religion echoed shared historical descent. Nonreligious individuals across countries also shared cultural values, offering evidence for the cultural evolution of secularization. While nation-states were a stronger predictor of cultural traits than religious traditions, the cultural similarity of coreligionists remained robust, controlling for demographic characteristics, geographic and linguistic distances between groups, and government restriction on religion. Together, results reveal the pervasive cultural signature of religion and support the role of world religions in sustaining superordinate identities that transcend geographical boundaries.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Orides Mezzaroba ◽  
Vladmir Oliveira da Silveira

Even today concepts that should have been overcome are debated, for example, the belonging of an individual to a State and, consequently, to its laws. The process of globalization, and the constant immigration resulted thereof, have led to profound changes in the relationship between the individual and the State, and especially, in the field of international human rights law. This means that the human needs began to be manifested regionally and internationally, in order to achieve the principle of the dignity of the human being. Thus, this article intends to investigate the link between citizenship and human rights, from new perspectives, through literature studies and deductive method, in order to answer the following questions: what are the added values to the concept of citizenship? And what is the current dimensions of citizenship?


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela García-Escobar

The aim of this article is to analyze the prevailing philosophical presuppositions in human rights interpretations and how they provide a reductionist and partial vision of the human person and of rationality. This paradigm excludes the experiences and moral concerns of a significant segment of the global population and avoids engaging with the underlying claims behind human rights debates. In response to such a situation, this paper will introduce a personalistic philosophical approach to human rights as an alternative capable of explaining how the concept of ‘person’, as a relational self, can enrich the prevailing rationality in International Human Rights Law. The research suggests that looking at inter-subjective relationships, meaning, and an enlarged concept of ‘human experiences’ can provide a deeper understanding of the human person and it can help to frame human rights discussions in more diversified and inclusive terms.


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