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Published in: Human Rights Review 4/2017

03-11-2017 | Book Review

Blasphemy and Defamation of Religions in a Polarized World: How Religious Fundamentalism is Changing Fundamental Human Rights by Darara Timotewas Gubo

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015

Author: Armis Sadri

Published in: Human Rights Review | Issue 4/2017

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Darara Timotewas Gubo has written a highly useful book about one of the most contentious debates confronting human rights advocates and scholars. In Blasphemy and Defamation of Religions in a Polarized World: How Religious Fundamentalism is Changing Fundamental Human Rights, the author contributes to the hot-button issue of religious freedom by enumerating the dissimilarities among different factors that shape conflicting claims in values, including perceptions of what constitutes the right to religious freedom and challenges to theories of universality and relativism. The book is particularly insightful because Gubo studies a diverse range of cases, including laws protecting religions from blasphemy and defamation in the context of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as well as blasphemy laws within Europe. …
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Title
Blasphemy and Defamation of Religions in a Polarized World: How Religious Fundamentalism is Changing Fundamental Human Rights by Darara Timotewas Gubo
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015
Author
Armis Sadri
Publication date
03-11-2017
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Human Rights Review / Issue 4/2017
Print ISSN: 1524-8879
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6306
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-017-0474-2

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