The Religions of Human Rights
The modern human rights movement arose during a moment of unprecedented encounter between global religions in the mid-twentieth century. Yet attempts to parse the historical relationship between human rights and religious thought have almost exclusively taken the form of case studies of individual r...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Harvard theological review
Jahr: 2023, Band: 116, Heft: 1, Seiten: 147-171 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Benenson, Peter 1921-2005
/ Perlzweig, Maurice L. 1895-1985
/ Malik, Charles Habib 1906-1987
/ Menschenrecht
/ Religion
/ Interreligiöser Dialog
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| IxTheo Notationen: | AX Interreligiöse Beziehungen BH Judentum CC Christentum und nichtchristliche Religionen; interreligiöse Beziehungen KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit NCD Politische Ethik |
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Middle East
B Cosmopolitanism B Pluralism B Human Rights B Judaism B Christianity |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The modern human rights movement arose during a moment of unprecedented encounter between global religions in the mid-twentieth century. Yet attempts to parse the historical relationship between human rights and religious thought have almost exclusively taken the form of case studies of individual religious traditions. This focus on intellectual genealogies obscures the fact that much of human rights doctrine emerged from interreligious contacts and conflicts between Judaism and Christianity, particularly in the context of the decolonizing Middle East. This article retraces this interreligious encounter through the writings of Amnesty International founder Peter Benenson, diplomat and theologian Charles Malik, and rabbi and activist Maurice Perlzweig. Together they represent three different theopolitical responses to the problem of religious pluralism after global empire: minoritarian human rights, majoritarian human rights, and cosmopolitan human rights. Recovering these interrelated human rights conceptions exposes the frames of religious difference embedded in the modern Western human rights imagination. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816022000372 |