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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.

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.

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