Human rights and the impact of religion
By: edited by Johannes A. van der Ven, Hans-Georg Ziebertz
Series: Empirical research in religion and human rights -- volume 3; Empirical research in religion and human rights -- v. 3.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9789004251359; 9789004251403
Subjects: Human rights; Menschenrecht; Christentum; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity; Religion; Christianity and other religions; Islam
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between sanctity and depravity: human dignity and human rights in classical Lutheran perspective ;; title: Rights, resistance, and revolution in the Western tradition: early Protestant foundations  -- John Witte; title: Human rights in the history of the Roman Catholic Church  -- Rik Torfs; title: (In)compatibility of religion and human rights: the case of Islam  -- Ruud Peters; title: Religion, personality and human rights: an empirical study among adolescents in England and Wales distinguishing between religious identity and textual authority among Christians and Muslims  -- Leslie J. Francis and Mandy Robbins; title: Religion and attitudes towards euthanasia and abortion : an empirical study among young Christians and Muslims in Germany  -- Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Marion Reindl; title: Attitudes towards human rights and religiosity: a case of Turkish adolescents  -- Üzeyir Ok and Selim Eren; title: Towards a legitimate role of religion in the domain of socioeconomic rights: an empirical study among adolescents in North West European countries  -- Johannes A. van der Ven; title: Public significance of religion with regard to socioeconomic rights in the multireligious context of Tamil Nadu, India  -- Francis-Vincent Anthony; title: Religion and attitudes towards socioeconomic human rights: an empirical study of young adults in Norway -- Pål Ketil Botvar.