Religion and the global politics of human rights/ edited by Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow -- International human rights regime / Thomas Banchoff -- Human rights and democracy in Islam: the Indonesian case in global perspective / Robert W. Hefner -- Muslims, human rights, and women's rights / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Religious pluralism, democracy, and human rights in Latin America / Paul Freston -- Gender justice and religion in sub-Saharan Africa / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf -- Buddhism, human rights, and non-Buddhist minorities / Charles Keyes -- Hinduism and the politics of rights in India / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Religion, state power, and human rights in China / David Ownby -- Religious communities and rights in the Russian Federation / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Human rights, the Catholic Church, and the death penalty in the United States / Thomas Banchoff.