caa a22 4500 388114630 CHVBK 20180307125403.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0360966900031510 doi S0360966900031510 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0360966900031510 Soko Keith Marquette University Human Rights and the Poor in the World Religions [Elektronische Daten] [Keith Soko] The experience of the many poor and of the many religions in today's world are two issues which this study addresses, from the perspective of human rights. Its thesis is that concern for the poor is not unique to Judaism and Christianity, but that all religions examined here contain an affirmation of the value of the individual person, as well as a compassion for the poor, which can lead to a universal concern for the rights of the poor and marginalized. Viewing human rights as a concept which expresses the aspirations of many religions, it examines their perceptions of human rights language and their concerns for the poor. In doing so, it rejects the postmodernist claim that all religions are incommensurable and cannot be compared on issues such as justice, human rights and concern for the poor, and argues for continuing efforts toward a global ethic. Copyright © The College Theology Society 1999 Horizons Cambridge University Press 26/1(1999), 31-53 0360-9669 26:1<31 1999 26 HOR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900031510 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900031510 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Soko Keith Marquette University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Horizons Cambridge University Press 26/1(1999), 31-53 0360-9669 26:1<31 1999 26 HOR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge