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

Much has been written of about the issue religious freedom and church-state relations. This book, however, takes up another side of the question: what has been the impact of religion on human rights, and in particular on women's human rights and development? Representatives from various religious traditions address questions such as: the theological venus the secular validation of human rights; reconciling Islamic feminism with the religion of Islam; harmonizing confessional with liberationist directions within the Catholic Church; establishing inter-religious dialogue amidst the clamor of politicized Hindu-Moslem communal hostility; a human-centered vs a nature-centered environmentalism. Contributors explore different of these questions 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