Is There a God of Human Rights? The Complex Relationship Between Human Rights and Religion, a South African... (International Studies in Religion and Society, ... Studies in Religion and Society)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9789004142091
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics/International Relations; Law; Political Science; Sociology; South Africa; Sociology of Religion; Religious aspects; Human rights; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights
First sentence: Anyone who reads the text of the South African constitution for the first time, starting with the preamble, is immediately struck by the dramatic character of the events under the apartheid regime that it describes.