Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Ambiguities of the Divine 2. Human Rights and Public Theology: The Basic Validation of Human Rights 3. Reply: Human Rights: Religious or Enlightened? 4. Human Environmental Rights and/or Biotic Rights 5. Reply: Rights of Creation to Rites of Revolution 6. Religion and Societal Change: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America 1. Reply: Religion and Societal Change: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America 8. Gandhi’s Philosophy of Satyagraha: Cautionary Notes for the International Penal Lobby 9. Reply: Secular Eschatologies and Class Interests of the Internationalized New Class 10. Speaking/Seeking a Common Language: Women, the Hindu Right, and Human Rights in India 11. Reply: Reconceptualizing the Relationships Between Religion, Women, Culture, and Human Rights 12. Feminism, Jewish Orthodoxy, and Human Rights: Strange Bedfellows? 13. Reply: Jewish Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Women’s Rights 14. Islamic Law and Human Rights: Conundrums and Equivocations

About the Author

Carrie Gustafson, Associate-in-Law and MIA/JSD candidate, Columbia Law School, is a practicing lawyer and recipient of a Mellon dissertation fellowship to study transitional justice issues at Columbia University. Peter Juviler, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University.