Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow

2. The International Human Rights Regime
Thomas Banchoff

PART I : ISLAM AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
3. Human Rights and Democracy in Islam: The Indonesian Case in Global Perspective
Robert W. Hefner

4. Muslims, Human Rights, and Women's Rights
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

PART II : THREE REGIONS: LATIN AMERICA, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and Human Rights in
Latin America
Paul Freston

6. Gender Justice and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

7. Buddhism, Human Rights, and Non-Buddhist Minorities
Charles Keyes

PART III : FOUR KEY COUNTRIES: INDIA, CHINA, RUSSIA, AND THE UNITED STATES
8. Hinduism and the Politics of Rights in India
Pratap Bhanu Mehta

9. Religion, State Power, and Human Rights in China
David Ownby

10. Religious Communities and Rights in the Russian Federation
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

11. Human Rights, the Catholic Church, and the Death Penalty in the United States
Thomas Banchoff

About the Author

TB: Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University RW: Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University

Reviews

"For three decades, scholars have shown that religion and human rights need each other. The volume opens an important new chapter of scholarship by illustrating precisely how religion and human rights interact today. Judiciously edited and strikingly original, the volume combines case studies of local communities with broad surveys of major religions and regions of the world that illustrate the complex and diverse controversies that remain, especially over
women's rights, religious freedom, and the rights to life and bodily integrity."
-- John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Emory University