Arvind Sharma

Hindu Narratives on Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering work examines the existing understanding of Hinduism in relation to human rights discourse. Written by a leading Hindu scholar, Hindu Narratives on Human Rights is organized around specific rights, such as the right to own property, the rights of children, women's rights, and animal rights. Within these categories and in light of the questions they raise, the book provides a guided tour of Hindu narratives on ethics, ranging from the famous religious epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, to various forms of secular literature drawn from almost a thousand years of Indic civilization. The realization that Hindu ethical discourse is narrative rather than propositional is a relatively recent one. Hence, the prevailing tendency in the West has been to overlook it in the context of the discussion of human rights. This book was written to correct that oversight. It shows that the presence of the universal in the particular in Hindu stories is a key to understanding Hindu thinking about human rights-and it indicates ways in which Hindu ethical discourse can interact creatively with modern human rights discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216096153
• Artikelnr.: 70037595

Autorenporträt

Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Canada. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. His publications include Hinduism and Human Rights (2004) and Hinduism On Its Own Terms (2016). He is also the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (2017).

Arvind Sharma has been a member of the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University since 1987. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is the author of Are Human Rights Western? (2006) and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Right to Justice 2. Does Hinduism Possess a Concept of
Rights? 3. Freedom of Religion 4. Hinduism and the Right to Property 5.
Hinduism and the Right to Livelihood 6. Hinduism and the Rights of Children
7. Marriage and the Rights of Women: Sakuntala 8. Marriage and the Rights
of Women: Savitri 9. Marriage and the Right of a Women to Choose Her
Husband 10. Animal Rights and Hinduism 11. Do Hindu Women Possess the Right
to Study the Vedas? 12. The Rights of the Child and the Right to
Parenthood: A Case Study 13. A Discussion of Law and Morality from Ancient
India 14. Hinduism and Egalitarianism 15. Hinduism and the Rights of the
Dead 16. Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Alexander's Invasion of India
Appendix I Universal Declaration of Human Rights Appendix II Hinduism and
Human Rights: A Critical Excursus Notes Index About the Author