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Human Rights and the Impact of Religion: 3
Author(s): Hans-Georg Ziebertz (Editor), Johannes A. van der Ven
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 8 May 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789004251359
- ISBN-13: 9004251359
Book Description
This volume is about the impact of religion (beliefs and practices) on attitudes towards human rights of the first, second and third generation. The first four papers about the impact of Lutheranism, Calvinism, Catholicism and Islam are historical and theoretical of character. The six other papers are based on empirical research in England and Wales, Germany, Turkey, India, Norway and on comparative empirical research in six North-West European countries. From both groups of articles it appears that ‘the’ impact of religion does not exist. In varying historical periods and contexts various religions, c.q. religious denominations, have various effects on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. positive effects (+), ambivalent effects (±), no effects (0), and negative effects (-).
Contributors include: Francis-Vincent Anthony, Pal Ketil Botvar, Selim Eren, Leslie Francis, Üzejir Ok, Ruud Peters, Marion Reindl, Mandy Robbins, Rik Torfs, Johannes (Hans) van der Ven, John Witte Jr., Hans-Georg Ziebertz
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a “superb” and “impressive” book, according to Derek H. Davis: “All of the essays included in this volume are far richer in content and research findings that can be presented in a brief book review. Emperical reserach in the human rights field is scanty at best, thus Brill and the editors and contributors of the series’ volumes are to be commended for making needed contributions to advancing human rights theory and practice with the publication of these volumes.”
Derek H Davis,
Waco, Texas (USA)About the Author
Johannes A. (Hans) van der Ven, PhD Nijmegen 1973, Honorary Doctor Lund 1998, is research associate for religion and human rights in the department of political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He publishes extensively on religion and human rights in a theoretical and empirical perspective including Human Rights or Religious Rules?, Brill, Leiden 2010.
Hans-Georg Ziebertz, PhD theol. 1990 Nijmegen, PhD rer.soc Tübingen 1993, is holding the chair of Practical Theology /Religious Education at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Recently he published books on Youth in Europe, Gender in Islam and Christianity, and on Religion and Human Rights (
Menschenrechte, Christentum und Islam, LIT, Münster 2010).
