Overview
- Covers an area that is on the forefront of the current debate on Global Justice and Human Rights
- No such systematic study has previously been published
- Highly relevant for understanding religious freedom and discrimination
Part of the book series: Studies in Global Justice (JUST, volume 9)
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About this book
The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electronically shrinking globe comes to be increasingly characterised by this phenomenon. To begin with, the concept of religious freedom, as embodied in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, seems self-evident in nature. It is the claim of this book, however, that although emblematic on the one hand, the concept is also problematic on the other, and the implications of the concept of religious freedom are far from self-evident, despite the ready acceptance the term receives as embodying a worthwhile goal. This book therefore problematizes the concept along legal, constitutional, ethical and theological lines, and especially from the perspective of religious studies, so that religious freedom in the world could be enlarged in a way which promotes human flourishing.
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Keywords
- Attitudes Toward Conversion inWorld Religions
- Concept of Religious Freedom
- Human Rights
- Missionary and non-missionary religions
- Native American Religious Freedom
- Non-missionary religions
- Religions: Missionary and Non-missionary
- Religious freedom
- Religious pluralism
- Religious studies
- Religious toleration
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- What Is Religion?
- What Is Religious Freedom?
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Problematizing Religious Freedom
Authors: Arvind Sharma
Series Title: Studies in Global Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8993-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8992-2Published: 08 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3698-6Published: 20 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8993-9Published: 08 August 2011
Series ISSN: 1871-0409
Series E-ISSN: 1871-1456
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 264
Topics: Philosophy of Law, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Religion, Political Science, Ethics