Full Description
This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal vision of human rights while acknowledging religious diversity is a challenge for schools. This book starts with the basic premise that human rights are grounded in a belief in the dignity and ultimate worth of the human person. Drawing on key philosophical and theological sources for understanding dignity, it builds a vision of human rights and religious education that seeks to square the impossible circle of universal human rights education in a religiously diverse world.
Contents
CONTENTS: Human rights education and religion - Post-secular human rights education - Human rights in the English curriculum - The primacy of dignity - Cicero - Christianity - Kant - Dignity in human rights education - Exclusive and inclusive approaches to dignity - Recontextualizing human rights education
