Human Rights and Religions

Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Full Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) as well as Visiting Professor at the Chair for Neuronal Learning and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich and at the ETH AI Center (Switzerland).  He is Visiting Fellow at the Global Ethic Institute at the University of Tuebingen (Germany) and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa). Prior, he was Visiting Fellow at Yale University (USA).

• Chapter 1. The contributions of various religious and ideological communities for and against the development of a tradition of human rights.- Chapter 2. Do religious and ideological communities have to respect human rights, protect them and contribute to their realization?.- Chapter 3. Must the state enforce the application of human rights in religious and philosophical communities?.- Chapter 4.  How should the corresponding arguments be evaluated from a social-ethical perspective?.- Chapter 5. Adaptation – thinking dialogically about the relationship between religious and ideological communities and human rights.- Chapter 6. Closing remarks.