Recommended books on Buddhism and Human rights

Buddhism and Human Rights: A Buddhist Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Buddhism and Human Rights: A Buddhist Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

By L. P. N. Perera

It is difficult to think of a more urgent question for Buddhism in the late twentieth century than human rights.

The political, ethical and philosophical questions surrounding human rights are debated vigorously in political and intellectual circles throughout the world and now in this volume.

Buddhism and Human Rights

Buddhism and Human Rights

Edited by Wayne R. Husted, Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish

• It is difficult to think of a more urgent question for Buddhism in the late twentieth century than human rights.
• The political, ethical and philosophical questions surrounding human rights are debated vigorously in political and intellectual circles throughout the world and now in this volume.

Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction

Religion and Human Rights

An Introduction

Edited by John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green 

• The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and problematic throughout the world. Most of the world’s religions have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of these religions can play a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Human rights depend upon the values of human communities to give them content, coherence, and concrete manifestation. Religions have constantly provided the sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, and restitution and reconciliation that a human rights regime needs to survive and flourish.
• This volume provides authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and origins of “human rights, ” and offers insight into the major human rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities. These include core issues of freedom of religious conscience, choice, exercise, expression, association, morality, and self-determination. They also include analysis of the roles of religious ideas and institutions in the cultivation and abridgement of rights of women, children, and minorities, and rights to peace, orderly development, and protection of nature and the environment.
• With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and Human Rights offers a wealth of knowledge and analysis for understanding the contributions to human rights and the challenges faced by the world’s religions.