Religion, State and the United Nations

Value Politics
Herausgeber: Stensvold, Anne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume approaches the UN as a laboratory of religio-political value politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780367874469
• ISBN-10: 0367874466
• Artikelnr.: 58441177

Autorenporträt

Anne Stensvold is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Oslo, Norway where she leads the Value Politics research group. She has written extensively on popular religion, Catholicism and political aspects of religion, and co-authored Lobbying for faith and family at the United Nations (2013). Her latest book is A history of pregnancy. From Original Sin to contemporary abortion debates. (Routlege 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I RELIGION AT THE UNITED NATIONS
Chapter 1: Engaging on global issues in a UN setting: Religious actors
[Katherine Marshall]
Chapter 2: The United Alliance of Civilisations and improved global
dialogue
[Jeffrey Haynes]
Chapter 3: Hate speech and holy prophets: Tracing the OIC's strategies to
protect religion
[Marie Juul Petersen and Heini Skorini]
Chapter 4: Negotiating traditional values. The Russian Orthodox Church
[Vebjørn Horsfjord]
Chapter 5: Internal affairs? Assessing NGO engagement for religious freedom
[Helge Årsheim]
Chapter 6: Religion, state and symbol politic. The Catholic Church
[Anne Stensvold]
PART II RELIGION AND STATE
Chapter 7: Emerging international subjects. The Royal 'Peel' Commission,
Palestine partition and religious difference
[Maria Birnbaum]
Chapter 8: Religious voices: American faith perspectives as an example
[Katherine Marshall]
Chapter 9: Dynamic perspectives on defamation of religion among Jewish NGOs
[Gabriel Levy and Miriam Kyselo]
Chapter 10: Human rights and the Tunisian constitution
[Ragnhild J. Zorgati]
Chapter 11: Norway, religion and the United Nations
[Ingrid Vik and Cecilie Endresen]
Concluding remarks
[Anne Stensvold]