FREEDOM OF RELIGION: From Tolerated Practice to Human Right
Freedom of religion is asserted in the constitutions and the charters and bills of rights of nations around the world, and yet it is one of the most contested of the basic human freedoms. From the ‘Rock Edicts’ of King Piyadasi in the third century BCE, to the United Nations Declaration on the Right...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2006
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Journal of Dharma
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| Further subjects: | B
Human Rights
B Religion B Tolerance B Anthropology B Humanity B Freedom |
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| Summary: | Freedom of religion is asserted in the constitutions and the charters and bills of rights of nations around the world, and yet it is one of the most contested of the basic human freedoms. From the ‘Rock Edicts’ of King Piyadasi in the third century BCE, to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities of 1992,1 we find repeated the statement that communities and individuals should be free to believe and to worship as they wish, and not be subject to compulsion or restriction on matters of religion. At the same time, however, such freedom has consistently met with resistance if not outright opposition, and even today many countries attempt to restrict not only change of belief or conversion, but the exercise of religious practice. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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