Toward a Theory of Human Rights makes a significant contribution both to human rights studies and to constitutional theory.
Addresses the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islam perspective. This work provides an insight into fresh possibilities of critical and progressive Islamic approaches, in both law and ethics, to one of the urgent crises facing humankind.
An attempt to integrate the study of religion with that of conflict resolution. Gopin contends that, although religion is a salient phenomena that will cause violence in the 21st century, it can also help construct a global community that limits conflict to its nonviolent, constructive variety.
Charles Tripp considers the challenge of capitalism faced by Muslims in the modern world.
This work represents an innovative attempt to integrate the study of religion with the study of conflict resolution. Marc Gopin argues that religion can play a critical role in constructing a global community of shared moral commitments and vision - a community that can limit conflict to its non-violent, constructive variety.
Explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in places such as: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market.
Contains the papers read at symposia held by turns in Tel Aviv and Bochum in the course of a co-operation between the Lester und Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, since 1985.