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  • - Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition
    af Jr., Atlanta) Witte & John (Emory University
    416,95 - 1.160,95 kr.

    This book traces the religious sources and dimensions of human rights and the complex interaction of human rights and religious freedom norms historically and today. It also answers various modern critics who see human rights as a betrayal of Christianity and religious freedom as a betrayal of human rights.

  • - Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties
    af Jr., Atlanta) Witte & John (Emory University
    511,95 - 1.294,95 kr.

    This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. It encourages churches, states, and other social institutions to collaborate in promoting the integration of sex, marriage, and family life. It defends the rights of women and children against Christian critics, and resists modern liberal efforts to abolish, privatize, or fracture the marital family.

  • - Law and Religion in Western Tradition
    af John & Jr. Witte
    468,95 kr.

  • af John, Jr. Witte & M. Christian Green
    543,95 kr.

    Spanning thousands of years, this collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions. It reveals the similarities and differences among the teachings of each tradition and the development of their ideas and practices over time. Selections address a range of subjects, including sexuality and sexual pleasure, the meaning and purpose of marriage, the role of betrothal, the status of women, the place of romance, divorce, celibacy, and sexual deviance. Drawn from a variety of genres, including ritual, legal, theological, poetic, and mythological texts, the chapters present and analyze a diverse range of sources, such as the Zohar on conjugal manners, a contemporary Episcopalian liturgy for same-sex unions, Qur'anic passages on the equality of the sexes, the Ka-masu-tra on husbands, wives, and lovers, Buddhist writings on celibacy, and Confucian teachings on filial piety.

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