Event Description
The Politics of 'Faith' and Human Rights critically examines the relationship between faith and secular human rights. The dominant view is that human rights operate outside of religion, they are secular, and free from religious justification. Hence, human rights are best suited to the task of dealing with religion and bringing societies mired in religion into the space of rational thought and modernity. This view is being challenged in emerging critiques of international law and decided human rights cases on religious practices, which demonstrate how, historically, secular human rights and faith/religion have been indelibly intertwined and conditioned one another. The analysis has significant implications for understandings of secularism and faith as well as human rights advocacy and scholarship. In particular, it prompts a series of challenging questions: What is the work that faith does in progressive, secular human rights advocacy and critical scholarship? How does a ‘secular’ position reproduce the us and them/civilized and uncivilized/global south and global north divides? What new labour of thought or scholarship is required to be undertaken once the orthodoxies and exclusions present in secular human rights have been exposed?
*This event qualifies for 1 hour of CPD credit.
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