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The universality of human rights has been extensively discussed since their inception, and most often in terms of contrasting viewpoints of universalism versus relativism. The present volume seeks to get beyond the polarization and to ask instead in which sense human rights are universal. The point of departure is that human rights must be universal in some sense, or they are nothing. It is meaningless to talk of human rights if they are not applicable to all humans, unconditionally. From each of their vantage points the authors explore the notion of universality in a joint effort to maintain the fundamental aspiration of the human rights documents without sidestepping the question. The authors come from such diverse fields as law, history, philosophy and anthropology, and between them they contribute in complementary ways to the never-ending quest for universality, correlating with a view of all humans being equal in dignity and rights. They are also keenly aware that the human rights project is unfinished and must always be forcefully argued for.

Human rights --- 342.72/.73 --- Multiculturalism --- Law and legislation

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Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future.This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork of expert authors, it sheds new light on the human experience of and social response to climate change by taking us from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the Southeas

Water --- Climatic changes. --- Global environmental change. --- Environmental aspects.

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Anthropology --- Culture --- Anthropologie --- Fieldwork --- Philosophy --- Recherche sur le terrain --- Philosophie --- Fieldwork. --- Philosophy. --- 39 --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- 39 Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Maatschappij. --- Culturele antropologie --- Ethnology. --- Anthropology.

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Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.

Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Study and teaching --- History