Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?: Competing Claims?

Much has been written about the issue of religious freedom and church-state relations. The contributors to this book, however, take up another side of the question: what has been the impact of religion on human rights. Representatives from various religious traditions address a broad range of topics, from environmental rights to the basic validation of human rights, to the rights of women in India and Iran and within Orthodox Judaism, to the global imposition of criminal justice, to pressures for democratization within the Catholic Church in Latin America. The six major essays, along with their accompanying "replies" answer questions and raise issues in a provocative and compelling debate.

Kenneth Anderson is Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, American University Margaret E. Crahan is Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History at Hunter College, City University of New York Patricia A. Daly, O.P. is Executive Director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, is a member of the Governing Board of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility Blu Greenberg is writes and lectures on issues of contemporary Jewish interest. In 1997 and 1998 she chaired the historic International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy Carrie Gustafson is Associate-in-Law and MIA/JSD candidate, Columbia Law School Louis Henkin is University Professor Emeritus, Board Chair of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, and Special Service Professor at Columbia University James F. Joyce, S.J. is Director of Social Ministries, New York Province, Society of Jesus Peter Juviler is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, is CoDirector of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University Ann Elizabeth Mayer is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Julie Stone Peters is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University Arati Rao is Associate Director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University Larry Rasmussen is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary Alan F. Segal is Professor of Religion at Barnard College Donald W. Shriver Jr. is an ordained Presbyterian minister, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and past president of the Society of Christian Ethics Max L. Stackhouse is Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary and Director of the Project on Public Theology at Princeton University