Human Rights and Religion in Educational Contexts

Part I. Introduction and Foundation

1. Introduction
Manfred L. Pirner, Johannes Lähnemann, Heiner Bielefeldt

2. Human Rights, Religions, and Education. A Theoretical Framework
Manfred L. Pirner

Part II. Human Rights and Religion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Examples

3. Human Rights and Islamic Legal Tradition: Prospects for an Overlapping Consensus
Ziba Mir-Hosseini

4. Human Rights Between Universalism and Religious Particularism
Friedrich Lohmann

5. Test Case Freedom of Religion or Belief
Heiner Bielefeldt

6. Religion in Schools from a Legal Viewpoint
Mathias Rohe

7. Engagement for Religious Freedom at the United Nations: The Contribution of the Bahá’ís
Gundula Negele

8. Religious Freedom and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jamaat): A Case Study of a Victimized Community
Yahya Hassan Bajwa

9. The Development of Human Rights in Muslim Societies
Saeid Edalatnejad

10. Human Rights in the Context of Buddhism
Andreas Nehring

Part III. Human Rights Education and Religious Education: Pedagogical Perspectives

11. The Relation Between the Human Right to Education and Human Rights Education
Wilna A. J. Meijer

12. Human Rights Education from the Perspective of the Pragmatist Didactics of Politics
Armin Scherb

13. The Child’s Right to Religion. Religious Education as a Human Right?
Friedrich Schweitzer

14. Empirical Findings on the Attitudes of Christian and Muslim Youth Towards Human Rights
Hans-Georg Ziebertz

15. Human Rights Education and Religious Education: A Protestant Perspective
Thomas Schlag

16. Human Rights Education and Religious Education: A Catholic Perspective
Bernhard Grümme

17. Human Rights Education in the Context of a “Culture of Remembrance”
Reinhold Boschki

18. Educating for Human Rights from the Jewish Perspective: Principles and Methods
Zehavit Gross

Part IV. Human Rights Education and Religious Education: International Perspectives

19. Collision of Contexts? Human Rights Education and Interreligious Learning in a Globalized World
Henrik Simojoki

20. The First Amendment and the “3 Rs” of Religious Liberty: A U.S. Approach to Religion Education and Human Rights
Bruce Grelle

21. Religious Freedom and Civic Education in American Public Schools
Erik Owens

22. European Institutions, Human Rights and Interreligious Education
Peter Schreiner

23. Human Rights, Religious Education and the Challenge of Diversity: A British Perspective
L. Philip Barnes

24. Issues and Dilemmas in Religious Education and Human Rights: Perspectives on Applying the Toledo Guiding Principles to a Divided Society
Norman Richardson

25. Interlocutors, Human Rights Education and Interreligious Dialogue: A South African Perspective
Cornelia Roux

26. The Contribution of Interreligious Initiatives to Human Rights Education
Johannes Lähnemann

27. Conclusion: Human Rights and Religion in Educational Contexts. Foundations and Conceptional Perspectives
Manfred L. Pirner

Keywords: Law, Human Rights, Religious Studies, general, Religion and Education, Educational Philosophy