The image of the human and the rights of the individual in Jewish tradition / Michael Fishbane -- Christian concepts of the responsible self / Trutz Rendtorff -- Political rights versus social rights / Mihailo Marković -- Fundamentalism and civil rights in contemporary Middle Eastern politics / Mansour Farhang -- The rights of women in contemporary Islam / Nikki R. Keddie -- The dilemmas of Islamic identity / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Duties and rights in Hindu society / John B. Carman -- Personal rights and contemporary Buddhism / Taitetsu Unno -- Social and cultural rights in Buddhism / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Why take rights seriously?: a Confucian critique / Henry Rosemont, Jr. -- Neo-Confucianism and human rights / W. Theodore de Bary -- Rites as rights: the Confucian alternative / Roger T. Ames.