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Authors: Chandr Muzaffar, C. Muzaffar
ISBN-13: 9780700716487, ISBN-10: 0700716483
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Chandr Muzaffar

Book Synopsis

This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Is a more integrated approach to human rights desirable - an approach that transcends the individual-centred orientation of civil and political liberties of the dominant centres of power in the West? How can religious thought contribute to an integrated notion of human rights and human dignity? What sort of transformation should religion itself undergo in order to enable it to come to grips with contemporary challenges? Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics, the economy and society as a whole?

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1An integrated approach to human rights3
2Development and democracy in Asia7
3Transforming rights: five challenges for the Asia-Pacific27
4Judging Asia: assessing human rights conditionality39
5UN High Commissioner for human rights51
6Rethinking human rights: a philosophical debate59
7A spiritual vision of the human being103
8A worldview for environmental salvation131
9The Soviet Union and the denial of God139
10Religious conflict in Asia147
11Religiosity on the rampage; spirituality in slumber169
12Islam: justice and politics173
13Judiciary and justice197
14Islamic movements and social change203
15Islamisation of state and society219
16Reflections on the Shariah229
17Hudud: central to Islam?233
18Iqbal and the challenge of reform239
19The welfare state: the quest for an alternative259
20The economic crisis275
21Establishing a fully moral and ethical society289
22Civil society in Malaysia311
23Accommodation and acceptance of non-Muslim communities319
24Islam and Confucianism: ethnic relations in Malaysia339
25Conclusion: the remembrance of God357
Index359

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