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RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS GEBUNDEN

Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to
institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human
rights is a crucial point here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of
controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless  there is consensus that the Christian
tradition - especially the doctrine that each human being is an image of God - played an
important role within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the period of
enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle against the politics of apartheid in South
Africa was strongly supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups referring to
the Human Rights. Christian churches and other religious groups do still play an important role
in the post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning all the challenges with
which the multiethnic and economically still deeply divided South African society is faced
with. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume
derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place
within the German-South African Year of Science 2012 13.

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