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Religious Faith and Human Rights

Centre for the Study of Human Rights alumni event with the Forum on Religion


The idea of human rights is often traced back to the characteristically religious insight that every individual is unique in the eyes of God. This explanation of why human dignity is important held sway for centuries, but it has lost much of its grip on society in these uncertain, post-modern times. Many adherents of human rights today see no need to root their beliefs in any religious (or specifically Christian) set of beliefs. Indeed some would go so far as to see religion as distinctly hostile to human rights. Are they right to do so? What is the true relationship between religion and human rights?

Rowan Williams was enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in February 2003. Following ordination in 1978 he combined teaching and pastoral work in Cambridge and then Oxford (where he was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity from 1986-92) until his election as Bishop of Monmouth in 1991and subsequently Archbishop of Wales from 2000.


Speaker(s):

former Archbishop of Canterbur Rowan Williams | talks | www
Professor Conor Gearty | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

1 May 2008 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science
Houghton St
London
WC2A 2AE


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Organised by:

London School of Economics & Political Science
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Tickets:

Free

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