Political and Judicial Rights through the Prism of Religious Belief

Researches the acceptance, perception and legitimation of human rights by people from different religious and cultural backgrounds

Rigorously tests for inter-individual differences regarding political and judicial rights on religious grounds, while controlling for other characteristics

Examines factors that either induce or reduce agreement with human rights issues

Offers international comparative empirical research on human rights, with a stress on a European contexts

Autorentext

Dr. Carl Sterkens is Associate Professor Pastoral Theology and Empirical Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Georg Ziebertz is Professor for Pedagogy of Religion, Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany

Inhalt
Introduction: Religion and political and judicial rights (Carl Sterkens).- Chapter 1. Attitude toward political rights and religious affiliation, experience, saliency and openness: An empirical enquiry among students in England and Wales (Leslie J Francis).- Chapter 2. Religion and political rights in the Spanish context: looking for developments (Lluis Oviedo).- Chapter 3. Religion for the political rights of immigrants and refugees? An empirical exploration among Italian students (Francesco Zaccaria).- Chapter 4. The Role of Values and Political Orientation in Human Rights (In-) Tolerance The Croatian Youth Case (Damir Milo).- Chapter 5. Religion, political and juridical rights in post-communist, post-atheist spaces. An empirical analysis among youth in Romania (Silviu E. Rogobete).- Chapter 6. Young Palestinian Muslim Support for Judicial and Political Human Rights (Raymond J. Webb).- Chapter 7. Extending Political Rights to Immigrants and Refugees. Empirical study among Christian, Muslim and Hindu students in the context of Indian secularism and the politics of inclusion (Francis-Vincent Anthony).- Chapter 8. Judicial Rights among Youth in Tanzania (Clement Fumbo).- Chapter 9. Predictors of judicial human rights' attitudes of adolescents in Nigeria (Modestus Adimekwe).- Chapter 10. Social conflicts, religion and human rights support. A study of young Christians and Muslims in Scandinavia (Pål Ketil Botvar).- Chapter 11. Attitudes towards refugee rights in thirteen countries. A multi-level analysis of the impact and interaction of individual and socio-cultural predictors (Alexander Unser).<p