Human Rights and Religion: A Sociological Perspective

This essay aims to review mainstream literature and research perspectives on the sociology of human rights with the further focus on relationship between human rights and religion. We consider the challenges of late engagement of sociology with human rights and current narratives of the relationship...

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Published in:Journal for the scientific study of religion
Authors: Breskaja, Olʹga Jurʹevna 1973- (Author) ; Giordan, Giuseppe 1966- (Author) ; Richardson, James T. 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Human rights / Religion
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B human rights and religion
B sociology of religious freedom
B Human Rights
B judicialization
B sociology of rights
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Summary:This essay aims to review mainstream literature and research perspectives on the sociology of human rights with the further focus on relationship between human rights and religion. We consider the challenges of late engagement of sociology with human rights and current narratives of the relationship of human rights and religion that encompass normativity as the central category of historically oriented sociology. We discuss the contribution of two empirical research mainstreams on human rights and religion and focus on a new field of study-sociology of religious freedom. A detailed new agenda for sociological research on human rights and religion is explored in the final part of our assessment.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12544