Chandra Muzaffar

Rights, Religion and Reform (eBook, PDF)

Enhancing Human Dignity through Spiritual and Moral Transformation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics, the economy and society as a whole?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317973522
• Artikelnr.: 41067234

Autorenporträt

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar is one of Asia's leading public intellectuals, and has written widely on politics, human rights and religion. A former university don, he has been a social activist for 30 years and is President of the International Movement for a Just World.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. From Human Rights to Human Dignity 1. An Integrated Approach to
Human Rights 2. Development and Democracy in Asia 3. Transforming Rights:
Five Challenges for the Asia-Pacific 4. Judging Asia: Assessing Human
Rights Credibility 5. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. Rethinking
Human Rights: A Philsophical Debate Part II. The Essence of Religion 7. A
Spiritual Vision of the Human Being 8. A Worldview for Environmental
Salvation 9. The Soviet Union and the Denial of God 10. Religious Conflict
in Asia 11. Religiosity on the Rampage: Spirituality in Slumber 12. Islam:
Justice and Politics 13. Judiciary and Justice 14. Islamic Movements and
Social Change 15. Islamisation of State and Society 16. Reflections on the
Shariah 17. Hudud: Central to Islam? 18. Iqbal and the Challenge of Reform
Part III. The Challenge of Reform 19. The Welfare State: The Quest for an
Alternative 20. The Economic Crisis 21. Establishing a Fully Moral and
Ethical Society 22. Civil Society in Malaysia 23. Accomodaiton and
Acceptance of Non-Muslim Communities 24. Islam and Confucianism: Ethnic
Relations in Malaysia 25. A Concluding Thought: the Remembrance of God