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This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights. Årsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real change on the ground: Where some committees view religion singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy this situation, Årsheim proposes the publication of a joint general comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the role of religion in the implementation of human rights.

Religious issues & debates --- Sociology --- Law. --- United Nations. --- human rights. --- religion. --- CEDAW --- CEDAW Committee --- Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women --- Convenção para a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra a Mulher --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Organization) --- Komite PBB Untuk Penghapusan Diskriminasi Terhadap Perempuan --- Sīdāw --- Sīḍō --- Yŏsŏng Ch'abyŏl Ch'ŏlp'ye Wiwŏnhoe --- CERD --- CERD Committee --- Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial de Naciones Unidas-CERD --- United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination --- UN-Menschenrechtsausschuss --- MRK (Organization) --- Human Rights Committee of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights --- HRC (Organization) --- Human Rights Committee (United Nations) --- CRC --- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child --- Committee on the Rights of the Child (United Nations) --- Comité des droits de l'enfant --- Comité sobre los Derechos del Niño de Naciones Unidas --- Comité Internacional de los Derechos del Niño del Sistema de Naciones Unidas