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.