Are Religious Values Universal?
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Religious, Universal, Values, Traditions, CommunitiesAbstract
Are religious values universal? After studying and teaching religious studies for nearly thirty years it is hard not to recognise that there are indeed a plethora of local, indigenous, and revivalist religious traditions, both within larger religions and independent of them. There are many Judaisms, Islams, Christianities, Buddhisms, Hinduisms and Daoisms. My researches have led me to the conclusion that the differences between religious traditions are real and not easily reduced to any single pattern or model. But there are, of course, many overlapping elements, conceptual, theological and most evidently historical. All religious traditions, for example, are committed to the value of peace but all traditions equally know of war, and have different thresholds at which abhorred violence is not only permissible but often mandated.
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A. Pollis & P. Schwab (eds.). 2000. New Perspectives, New Realities. Boulder: Lynne Riener.
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A. Swidler (ed.). 1982. Human Rights in Religious Traditions. New York: Pilgrims.
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F. Zakaria. 1986. 'Human Rights in the Arab World: the Islamic Context', in UNESCO.
H. Cohn. 1984. Human Rights in Jewish Law. New York: KTAV.
H. Rosemont. 1988. Why Take Rights Seriously? A Confucian Critique in Rouner.
Human Rights in Islam. 1982. Geneva: International Commission of Jurists.
I. Leigh. 2002. Freedom of Religion: Public/Private, Rights/Wrongs', in M. Hill (ed.). Religious Liberty and Human Rights. ( 128-158). Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Islam and Justice. 1996. New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
J. C. Hsiung. 1985. Human Rights in EastAsia: A Cultural Perspective. New York: Paragon.
J. Carman. 1988. Duties and Rights in Hindu Society in L.S. Rouner, 113-128.
J. Cooper et al. 1985. Human Rights in Post-Moa China. Boulder: Westview.
J. Donnelly. 1998. International Human Rights: Dilemmas in World Politics. Boulder: Westview.
J. Dudley. 1982. Human Rights Practices in the Arab States: The Modern Impact of Shari' a Values'. Georgia Journal ofInternational and Comparative Law 12, 5593.
J. Feinerman. 1989. 'Human Rights in China: Impact of the China Democracy Movement'. Current History 88 (274-284).
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J. Kurth. 1998. Protestantism and Foreign Policy: Religion in World Affairs. Current 404, July/August (9-19).
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J. Morsink. 2000. The Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights: Drafting, Origins and Intent. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press.
J. Nickel. 1987. Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights. Berkeley: University of California Press.
J. P. Martin, I. Bloom & W. Proudfoot. (eds). 1996. Religious Diversity and Human Rights. New York: Columbia University Press.
J. P. Piscatori. 1980. Human Rights in Islamic Political Culture in Thompson.
J. Penncock & J. Chapman (eds.). 1981. Human Rights: Nomos XXIII. New York: New York University Press.
J. Van de Vyer& J. Witte (eds.). 1996. Religious Rights in Global Perspective. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
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K. Mitra. 1988. Human Rights in Hinduism in Rouner.
K. W. Thompson (ed.). 1980. The Moral Imperatives ofHuman Rights. Washington: University Press of America.
L. Goodman. 1976. Equality and Human Rights: The Lockean and Judaic Views. Judaism 25 (361-362).
L. Henkin. 1998. Religion, Religions and Human Rights. Journal of Religious Ethics, 26, 2 (229-239).
L. P. Perera (ed.). 1988. Human Rights and Religions in Sri Langka. A Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Colombo: Sri Langka Foundation.
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L. S. Rouner (ed.). 1998. Human Rights and the World's Religions. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
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M. A. Sinaceur. 1986. Islamic Tradition and Human Rights in UNESCO.
M. Abe. 1986. 'Religious Tolerance and Human Rights: A Buddhist Perspective in Swidler.
M. Davis (ed.). 1995. Human Rights and Chinese Values. New York: Oxford University Press.
M. Evans. 2000. Human Rights, Law and Religion: Locating the Debate in P. Edge & G. Harvey (eds.). Law Religion and Contemporary Society: Communities, Individualism and the State. Aldershot: Ashgate.
M. Far-hang. 1988. Fundamentalism and Civil Rights in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics, in Rouner.
M. Fishbane. 1988. The Image of the Human and the Rights of the Individual in Jewish Tradition in Rouner.
M. Glenson. 2001. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House.
M. H Beg. 1980. 'Human Rights and Asia' Santa Clara Law Review 28. 319-350.
M. Ignatieff. 2001. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
M. L. Stackhouse, Max L. 1984. Creeds Society and Human Rights. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
M. R. Konvitz (ed.). 1972. Judaism and Human Rights. New York: Norton.
M. Stackhouse. 1998. The Intellectual Crisis of a Good Idea. Journal of Religious Ethics 26,2 (236-268).
M. Wang. 1986. Forty Years of International Human Rights. Chinese Intellectuals 2, (117-124).
P. Gibson. 1997 November. 'Asian Values Western Values and Human Rights'. Paper at the 12th NZ International Conference on Asian Studies. Massey University.
P. Morris. 1996. 'The United Nations, New Zealand and Tolerance', G. Hawke (ed.). Diversity and Justice. Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, (27-34).
R. A. Jullundhri. 1980. Human Rights and Islam in A. Falconer (ed.). Understanding Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary and Interfaith Study. Dublin: Irish School of
Ecumenics.
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R. Drinan. 2001. The Mobilization of Shame: A World View Q/ Human Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press.
R. Falk. 2001. Religion and Humane Global Governance. New York: Palgrave.
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R. Panikkar. 1982. Human Rights in Hinduism in Swidler.
. 1982. Is the Notion of Human Rights a Western Concept?. Diogenes 120 (75-102).
R. Peerenhoom. 1990. Confucian Justice: Achieving a Humane Society. International Philosophical Quarterly l, (139-157).
R. Thurman. 1988. Social and Cultural Rights in Buddhism in Rouner.
R. Traer. 1991. Faith in Human Rights: Support in Religious Traditions for a Global Struggle. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
S. H. Nasr. 1980. The Concept and Reality of Freedom in Islam and Islamic Civilization, in A. S. Rosenbaum (ed.). The Philosophy ofHuman Rights. Westport: Greenwood Press.
S. Tabandeh. 1970. A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights. F. J. Goulding (tr.). London: F. T. Goulding.
S. Tharoor. 1999-2000. Are human rights universal?. World Policy Journal 16/4.
T. Evans. 1996. US Hegemony and Universal Human Rights. New York: St Martin 's.
T. Thi. 1988. The Vietnamese Tradition of Human Rights. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies.
T. Unno. 1988. Personal Rights and Contemporary Buddhism in Rouner, (129147).
UNESCO and International Institute of Philosophy. 1986. Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. Paris: UNESCO.
Universal Islamic Declaration ofHuman Rights. 1981. London: Islamic Foundation.
V. Verma. 2002. Debating Rights in Malaysia: Contradictions and Challenges. Journal of Contemporary Asia 32/1, (108-130).
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