Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lars Charbonnier and Wilhelm Gräb -- Human rights and globaliztion / Wolfgang Huber -- The sacredness of the person / Hans Joas -- The "universal declaration of human rights" : a confessional basis of a universal religion? / Wilhelm Gräb -- Limits of the culturally relative view of human rights / Sarhan Dhouib -- Human dignity and human rights / Johannes Fischer -- Homo aestheticus within the framework of inhabitational theology : an anthropological perspective on identity and dignity within the human rights discourse / Daniel Louw -- Human dignity, human rights and socio-economic exclusion? / Nico Koopman -- "Whose law?" : South African struggles with notions of justice / Dirkie Smit -- The role of the church in human rights in a democratice South Africa / Simanga Kumalo -- HIV and AIDS as a human rights challenge to faith communities in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa / Beatrice Okyere-Manu -- The role of the Eucharist in human dignity : a South Africa story / Johan Cilliers.