Teaching Human Rights and Judaism:: Are They Compatible?

Zehavit Gross

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Teaching Human Rights and Judaism: Are They Compatible?

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The aim of this research is to analyse the theoretical-conceptual complexity of teaching human rights education within a Jewish religious school system. Human rights education in a religious context poses a philosophical and practical challenge, since the basic assumptions of religious education and human rights education can seem contradictory, unachievable, and irreconcilable.

The orientation of human rights is fundamentally anthropocentric, perceiving people as the centre, while the worldview of the religious perception is an orientation positioning God and his requirements of humanity at the centre (Gross, 2012). Yet an in-depth observation of the religious Jewish outlook and texts dealing with human rights reveals a divide that is frequently psychological and consciousness-based more than practical-existential in nature. Through reflexive, well-thought-out education (Gross, 2010a) (deriving from information, not ignorance) many apparently unbridgeable divides can be narrowed

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Values, Human Rights and Religious Education:
Subtitle of host publication	Contested Grounds.
Editors	J. Astley, L. J. Francis, D. W. Lankshear
Place of Publication	Oxford, UK
Publisher	Peter Lang
Chapter	20
Pages	311-324
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-78874-526-0
ISBN (Print)	9781788745253
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3726/b14257/30
State	Published - 27 Nov 2018

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Name	Religion, Education and Values
Publisher	Peter Lang
ISSN (Print)	2235-4638

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