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Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations / Helge êArsheim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 67Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110478068
  • 3110478064
  • 9783110476538
  • 3110476533
  • 9783110476590
  • 3110476592
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No title; Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 341.4/832 23
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Making Religion -- Introduction -- 1. The United Nations and Religion -- 2. Making Religion -- 3. Making Religion in International Law -- Part II: Monitoring Religion -- Introduction -- 4. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- 5. The Human Rights Committee -- 6. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- 7. The Committee on the Rights of the Child -- 8. Legal Forms of Religious Life -- References -- Index.
Summary: This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights. êArsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real change on the ground: Where some committees view religion singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy this situation, êArsheim proposes the publication of a joint general comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the role of religion in the implementation of human rights.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Making Religion -- Introduction -- 1. The United Nations and Religion -- 2. Making Religion -- 3. Making Religion in International Law -- Part II: Monitoring Religion -- Introduction -- 4. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- 5. The Human Rights Committee -- 6. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- 7. The Committee on the Rights of the Child -- 8. Legal Forms of Religious Life -- References -- Index.

This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights. êArsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real change on the ground: Where some committees view religion singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy this situation, êArsheim proposes the publication of a joint general comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the role of religion in the implementation of human rights.

In English.

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