Beyond Universality and Particularity:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Beyond Universality and Particularity: "
Joas Adiprasetya

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082456
Doc. No	:	LA126085
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341247‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joas Adiprasetya
Title & Author	:	Beyond Universality and Particularity: [Article] : The Problem of the Human Rights Language in Liberation Theology\ Joas Adiprasetya
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion Human Rights
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/2
Page No	:	163–171
Abstract	:	This comment demonstrates the changes of attitude among liberation theologians toward human rights language, from avoidance, through critical confrontation, to appropriation. The reluctance appears as a natural consequence of the idea of partiality and preferentiality held by liberationists, which has always been critical of any claim of universality such as human right. The comment also argues that the latest phase of appropriation is made possible after liberationists employ the ecclesial idea of the ‘preferential option for the poor.’ However, the acceptance of human rights language can only be possible if we see the poor as concrete universal and understand the idea of the ‘preferential option for the poor’ as a middle axiom. This comment demonstrates the changes of attitude among liberation theologians toward human rights language, from avoidance, through critical confrontation, to appropriation. The reluctance appears as a natural consequence of the idea of partiality and preferentiality held by liberationists, which has always been critical of any claim of universality such as human right. The comment also argues that the latest phase of appropriation is made possible after liberationists employ the ecclesial idea of the ‘preferential option for the poor.’ However, the acceptance of human rights language can only be possible if we see the poor as concrete universal and understand the idea of the ‘preferential option for the poor’ as a middle axiom.
Descriptor	:	human rights
Descriptor	:	Latin America
Descriptor	:	liberation theology
Descriptor	:	middle axiom
Descriptor	:	particularity
Descriptor	:	preferential option for the poor
Descriptor	:	universality
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341247‬