Political and Judicial Rights through the Prism of Religious Belief

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sterkens, Carl (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ziebertz, Hans-Georg (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, 3
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Social Aspects of Religion.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Human Rights.; Sociology of Religion.

This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other. At a time when the so-called 'checks and balances' that guarantee the vulnerable equilibrium between legislative, executive and judicial branches of govern...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Religion and political and judicial rights (Carl Sterkens)
• Chapter 1. Attitude toward political rights and religious affiliation, experience, saliency and openness: An empirical enquiry among students in England and Wales (Leslie J Francis)
• Chapter 2. Religion and political rights in the Spanish context: looking for developments (Lluis Oviedo)
• Chapter 3. Religion for the political rights of immigrants and refugees? An empirical exploration among Italian students (Francesco Zaccaria)
• Chapter 4. The Role of Values and Political Orientation in Human Rights (In-) Tolerance - The Croatian Youth Case (Damir Miloš)
• Chapter 5. Religion, political and juridical rights in post-communist, post-atheist spaces. An empirical analysis among youth in Romania (Silviu E. Rogobete)
• Chapter 6. Young Palestinian Muslim Support for Judicial and Political Human Rights (Raymond J. Webb)
• Chapter 7. Extending Political Rights to Immigrants and Refugees. Empirical study among Christian, Muslim and Hindu students in the context of Indian secularism and the politics of inclusion (Francis-Vincent Anthony)
• Chapter 8. Judicial Rights among Youth in Tanzania (Clement Fumbo)
• Chapter 9. Predictors of judicial human rights' attitudes of adolescents in Nigeria (Modestus Adimekwe)
• Chapter 10. Social conflicts, religion and human rights support. A study of young Christians and Muslims in Scandinavia (Pål Ketil Botvar)
• Chapter 11. Attitudes towards refugee rights in thirteen countries. A multi-level analysis of the impact and interaction of individual and socio-cultural predictors (Alexander Unser).