Editors:
- Provides empirical research on the acceptance, perception and legitimation of human rights from various religious and cultural backgrounds
- First book to rigorously tests for inter-individual differences regarding socioeconomic rights on religious grounds
- This books studies and reflects on factors that either induce or reduce agreement with human rights issues, more specifically with regard to socioeconomic human rights
- The book offers international comparative empirical research on human rights, not only focusing on the European context
Part of the book series: Religion and Human Rights (REHU, volume 5)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Socioeconomic rights include rights with regard to social security, labour and employment, as well as cultural rights which may be regarded as a shield for the protection of human dignity, especially of specific groups, such as women, children and refugees. The enforceability of socioeconomic rights clearly distinguishes them from other rights. These rights need, perhaps more than others, the support of civil society. Because states have leeway in how resources are distributed, civil society has a major impact on what resources are used to fulfil socio-economic rights. One of the actors in the public arena are religious traditions, respective Churches. Most of them have developed ethical standards for individual conduct and rules for living together in society based on their basic scriptures. All three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are marked by a caring engagement for the poor, the sick, the old and the foreign.
From an empirical perspective,the general research question of this volume is how young people understand and evaluate socioeconomic rights and to which degree religious convictions and practices are connected with attitudes towards these human rights. Can religion be identified as a force supporting the human rights regime and which additional concepts strengthen or weaken the consent to these rights? The richness of empirical data contributes to a better understanding how socioeconomic rights are legitimated in the opinion of more than 10.000 respondents in 14 countries.Keywords
- Religion and Socio-economic Rights
- Human Rights and Religion
- Religion and Labor Rights
- Religion and Women Rights
- Religion and Children Rights
- Religion and Economic Deprivation
- History of Socioeconomic Rights
- Religious Diversity
- Religion, Education and Youth Research
- Youth Rights in a Cross-national Comparative Research
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Theology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Hans-Georg Ziebertz
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Empirical Studies on Religion and Socioeconomic Human Rights
Editors: Hans-Georg Ziebertz
Series Title: Religion and Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30934-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30933-6Published: 07 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30936-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30934-3Published: 06 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2510-4306
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 327
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Human Rights, Comparative Religion, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights