Religion and Civil Human Rights in Empirical Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ziebertz, Hans-Georg (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sterkens, Carl (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Religion and Human Rights, 2
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Human rights.; Social justice.; Sociology of Religion.; Human Rights.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights. It explores the legitimization of these human rights by individual people, both because of their religion and because of their vision of what constitutes human dignity. The book addresses such issues as th...