global challenges from intercultural perspectives Gräb, Wilhelm editor. Charbonnier, Lars editor. text bibliography Electronic books. gw 2015 2015 monographic eng 1 online resource (228 pages) Current processes of globalization are challenging human rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point here. The collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from the academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13. Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Human Rights and Globalization -- The Sacredness of the Person -- The "Universal Declaration of Human Rights": A Confessional Basis of a Universal Religion? -- Limits of the Culturally Relative View of Human Rights -- Human Dignity and Human Rights -- Homo Aestheticus within the Framework of Inhabitational Theology. An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Dignity within the Human Rights Discourse -- Human dignity, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Exclusion? -- "Whose Law?" South African Struggles with Notions of Justice -- The Role of the Church in Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa -- HIV and AIDS as a Human Rights Challenge to Faith Communities in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa -- The Role of the Eucharist in Human Dignity: a South African Story -- Index of Authors. edited by Wilhelm Gräb and Lars Charbonnier. Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. f-sa--- Human rights Religious aspects Globalization Human rights South Africa BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Gaia & Earth Energies RELIGION Christianity General Globalization Human rights Human rights Religious aspects South Africa Religion Menschenrecht BL65.H78 .R455 2015eb 201/.723 Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, ©2015 vi, 222 pages 9783110348651 3110348659 9783110384710 311038471X http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=999664 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=999664 E7B 150611 20200709060348.0 ocn912323262 eng