Overview
- Explores how young people legitimize the boundaries of the right to life
- Presents unique empirical research among youth
- Offers insights from different religious and cultural backgrounds
Part of the book series: Religion and Human Rights (REHU, volume 4)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Keywords
- Human Rights and Religion
- The Right to Life
- Religion and Euthanasia
- Religion and Abortion
- Religion and Death Penalty
- Limitation of Human Rights
- Religious Diversity
- Youth Research
- Empirical Research
- Cross-national Comparative Research
- Christian and death penalty
- Hindu and death penalty
- Muslim and death penalty
- youth and right to life
- religion and society
About this book
This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life. It features more than 10 papers written by scholars from 14 countries that offer international comparative empirical research. Inside, readers will find case studies from such areas as: India, Chile, Germany, Italy, England, Palestine, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Poland.
The papers focus on three limitations of the right to life: the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. The contributors explore how young people understand and evaluate the right to life and its limitations. The book presents unique empirical research among today's youth and reveals that, among other concepts, religiosity matters. It provides insight into the acceptance, perception, and legitimation of human rights by people from different religious and cultural backgrounds.
This investigation rigorously tests for inter-individual differences regarding political and judicial rights on religious grounds, while controlling for other characteristics. It will help readers better understand the many facets of this fundamental, yet controversial, philosophical question. The volume will be of interest to students, researchers, as well as general readers searching for answers.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Francesco Zaccaria is Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Theology, Apulian Theological Faculty, Bari, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Euthanasia, Abortion, Death Penalty and Religion - The Right to Life and its Limitations
Book Subtitle: International Empirical Research
Editors: Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Francesco Zaccaria
Series Title: Religion and Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98773-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98772-9Published: 27 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98773-6Published: 16 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2510-4306
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights, Religion and Society