Is There A God Of Human Rights?

This volume deals with historical, systematic and empirical questions with regard to the complex relationship between human rights and religion. It focuses on the place and function of human rights in democracies in modern society. Moreover it elaborates on the problems which are implied in the complex relationship between human rights and religion from the beginning. Lastly it investigates the positive, negative and ambivalent empirical effects of religious attitudes on human rights attitudes among some youth in South Africa.

Hendrik J. C. Pieterse is emeritus professor of practical theology, University of South Africa, and now occupies an extra-ordinary chair of practical theology at the University of Pretoria. Jaco S. Dreyer is an associate professor in the department of practical theology of the University of South Africa. Johannes A. van der Ven occupies the chair of comparative empirical theology in Nijmegen and the extra-ordinary chair of practical theology at the University of South Africa.