Religion and Human Rights ((3))

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This course studies the development of the revolutionary ideas of civil disobedience and human rights in relation to religious violence and non-violence. Employing primary texts and scholarly sources from religious studies, the social sciences, and history, the course studies Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha and Indian independence; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of non-violent resistance and the civil rights movement in the USA; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa; the Mothers on the Plaza protesting Argentina's Dirty War; religious myth and sexual violence in the Bosnian genocide; the UN and the Rwandan genocide; religious violence and 9/11; and peacemaking in relation to terrorism.