Religion and Human Rights -- Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affaris - March 15th 2007
Conference on Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Keynote Address
by Kenneth Roth
Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
Thursday, March 15,
7:30pm-9:00pm
Copley Formal Lounge
To RSVP for the Keynote Address, click here.
Conference Panels
Friday, March 16,
10:30am-5:30pm
Copley Formal Lounge
To RSVP for all three sessions, click here.
To RSVP for individual sessions, click on the links below:
10:30-12:00pm
First Conference Session: Latin America and Africa
1:45-3:15pm
Second Conference Session: Islam in Transnational Perspective
3:45-5:30pm
Third Conference Session: Russia and Asia
Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways. Are “universal” human rights in fact an imposition of western or Christian ideas? Is democracy, the “rule of the people,” compatible with God’s law? How does religion inform – and impede – the struggle for human rights around the world? The conference on “Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights” brings together leading anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and political scientists to explore these and related questions. It breaks with the dominant “top down” approach centered on the principles found in sacred texts and authoritative theological and legal interpretations. Participants will grapple with the issue “bottom up” – the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international politics.
The juxtaposition of key cases from around the world will deepen our knowledge about the interplay of religion, politics, and society, and provide signposts for policymakers in Washington, DC, and elsewhere grappling with an increasingly salient issue area.
This conference, convened by Thomas Banchoff, Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and Robert Wuthnow, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, is the third in a series. In April 2005 Georgetown University sponsored a conference on “The New Religious Pluralism and Democracy.” In March 2006, the Berkley Center’s inaugural conference addressed the “The New Religious Pluralism in World Politics.”
Two books based on the conferences are forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Participants
Thomas Banchoff, Georgetown University (co-convener)
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University (co-convener)
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Brown University
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University
Paul Freston, Calvin College
Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
Robert Hefner, Boston University
Riva Kastoryano, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
Charles Keyes, University of Washington
Pratap Mehta, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
David Ownby, University of Montreal
Alfred Stepan, Columbia University
Georgetown University
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
3307 M. St., Washington DC, 20007
berkleycenter@georgetown.edu 202.687.5119
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Keynote Address
by Kenneth Roth
Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
Thursday, March 15,
7:30pm-9:00pm
Copley Formal Lounge
To RSVP for the Keynote Address, click here.
Conference Panels
Friday, March 16,
10:30am-5:30pm
Copley Formal Lounge
To RSVP for all three sessions, click here.
To RSVP for individual sessions, click on the links below:
10:30-12:00pm
First Conference Session: Latin America and Africa
1:45-3:15pm
Second Conference Session: Islam in Transnational Perspective
3:45-5:30pm
Third Conference Session: Russia and Asia
Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways. Are “universal” human rights in fact an imposition of western or Christian ideas? Is democracy, the “rule of the people,” compatible with God’s law? How does religion inform – and impede – the struggle for human rights around the world? The conference on “Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights” brings together leading anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and political scientists to explore these and related questions. It breaks with the dominant “top down” approach centered on the principles found in sacred texts and authoritative theological and legal interpretations. Participants will grapple with the issue “bottom up” – the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international politics.
The juxtaposition of key cases from around the world will deepen our knowledge about the interplay of religion, politics, and society, and provide signposts for policymakers in Washington, DC, and elsewhere grappling with an increasingly salient issue area.
This conference, convened by Thomas Banchoff, Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and Robert Wuthnow, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, is the third in a series. In April 2005 Georgetown University sponsored a conference on “The New Religious Pluralism and Democracy.” In March 2006, the Berkley Center’s inaugural conference addressed the “The New Religious Pluralism in World Politics.”
Two books based on the conferences are forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Participants
Thomas Banchoff, Georgetown University (co-convener)
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University (co-convener)
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Brown University
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University
Paul Freston, Calvin College
Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
Robert Hefner, Boston University
Riva Kastoryano, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
Charles Keyes, University of Washington
Pratap Mehta, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
David Ownby, University of Montreal
Alfred Stepan, Columbia University
Georgetown University
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
3307 M. St., Washington DC, 20007
berkleycenter@georgetown.edu 202.687.5119
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