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Human Rights and Religion: A Sociological Perspective
Author(s) -
Breskaya Olga,
Giordan Giuseppe,
Richardson James T.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal for the scientific study of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1468-5906
pISSN - 0021-8294
DOI - 10.1111/jssr.12544
Subject(s) - sociology , human rights , sociology of religion , mainstream , perspective (graphical) , field (mathematics) , narrative , sociological imagination , focus (optics) , social science , epistemology , environmental ethics , law , political science , linguistics , philosophy , physics , mathematics , optics , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics
This essay aims to review mainstream literature and research perspectives on the sociology of human rights with the further focus on relationship between human rights and religion. We consider the challenges of late engagement of sociology with human rights and current narratives of the relationship of human rights and religion that encompass normativity as the central category of historically oriented sociology. We discuss the contribution of two empirical research mainstreams on human rights and religion and focus on a new field of study—sociology of religious freedom. A detailed new agenda for sociological research on human rights and religion is explored in the final part of our assessment.