Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Human Rights and Globalization 7
5. The Sacredness of the Person 25
6. The “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”: A Confessional Basis of a Universal Religion? 39
7. Limits of the Culturally Relative View of Human Rights 53
8. Human Dignity and Human Rights 71
9. Homo Aestheticus within the Framework of Inhabitational Theology 87
10. Human dignity, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Exclusion? 131
11. “Whose Law?” South African Struggles with Notions of Justice 149
12. The Role of the Church in Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa 175
13. HIV and AIDS as a Human Rights Challenge to Faith Communities in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 187
14. The Role of the Eucharist in Human Dignity: a South African Story 201
15. Index of Authors 221