This chapter
focuses on the correlation between human rights and religion. It explains how
the oversimplification of both systems' complexity resulted in the reductive
classification of religion and human rights as oppositional systems. Significant
ideas of human rights theories overlap with doctrinal claims in religious
traditions, while human rights language occasionally features liturgical, public
worship, devotional, and public structures of religious traditions. Trends such
as treatment of women, toleration, and authoritative interpretation tend to
raise arguments on the compatibility between some expressions of religion and
international human rights norms. The chapter then covers the interdependence of
human rights by referencing the Masterpiece Cakeshop case and the
Sahin case.
