EMNEKATALOG - Det teologiske Menighetsfakultetet

Emnekatalog: SAM5144SAM5144 - Religion and Human RightsEmneansvarlig:Gunnar Harald Heiene (Gunnar.Heiene@mf.no)Studiepoeng: 10Undervisningstermin:Vår (Uregelmessig)Avdelingstilhørighet:Avdelingsråd for religion og samfunnTillatte hjelpemidler ved eksamen: IngenGenerell informasjonIn the modern world, Human Rights are part of the international normative regime that regulates the relationship between individualsand the State. Moreover, this regime also functions as a background for assessing how different states relate to, evaluate, andintervene in relation to, other states on different levels of interaction. Human Rights have emerged out of a Western context, andpresuppose an understanding of human beings rooted in the Enlightenment. Moreover, they have partly developed as a response toconflicts between different groups and / or religious denominations, and they represent an attempt to regulate the relationship betweenpeople without taking their religious commitments into consideration, while at the same time underscoring the basic equality of allhumans.StudiekravTo complete the course, the student have to:- Write a book report 1200-2000 words from a limited part of the course syllabus. The topic of the report is selected in cooperation withthe professor and is graded pass/fail.- Participate in the evaluation of the curriculum and/or of the learning environment, if such evaluation is stipulated in the relevant termAvsluttende vurderingTo gain credit for the course SAM5144 the student must fulfill all the requirements and a take-home examination (1 week). The exam isassessed with grades A-F.Mål og innholdThe study of religion and human rights discusses various aspects of the relationship between modern Human Rights thinking anddifferent religious traditions.The students will demonstrate the following skills:- To understand conditions and problems in the relationship between religious traditions and human rights- To discuss to what extent it is possible to give a theological/religious warrant for human rights- To understand and discuss the social and cultural conditions necessary to discuss possibilities for mediating between religion andhuman rights- To discuss how human rights are culturally relative, and how they can contribute to make religious traditions appear as problematic orchallenge such traditions in different waysLitteraturLITTERATUR/LITERATURE- "Et utvalg" i:/in:/from: New directions in Islamic thought : exploring reform and Muslim tradition / Kari Vogt et al. red./ed. London:Tauris, 2009, s./p. 47-73, 101-112, 145-161, ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-84511-739-9- Bucar, Elizabeth M. og Barbra Barnett, Does human rights need God? Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publ., 2005,ISBN/ISSN: 0-8028-2905-8- Haas, Michael, International human rights : a comprehensive introduction London: Routledge, 2008, s./p. XIX, 440 s. /, ISBN/ISSN:0-415-77454-3/0-415-77455-1/978-0-415-77454-3/978-0-415-77455-0- Reed, Esther D., The ethics of human rights : contested doctrinal and moral issues Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2007,ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-932792-97-3