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Are human rights divinely ordained? Does one have to believe in God and divine revelation as the source of human rights, or are there equally valid secular sources? These challenging questions were discussed by scholars and lay leaders of the Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Buddhist traditions in Sources of Human Rights: Religion's Role in Defining Human Dignity, a two-day conference on October 6–7 presented by the Interreligious Center on Public Life (ICPL) in cooperation with The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and The Toleration Project at Boston University.
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ICPL is a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School. Speakers included Hebrew College President David M. Gordis; Dr. Shlomo Fischer, Director of Ysodot—the Center for the Study of Torah and Democracy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dr. Peter Berger, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology, and University Professor at Boston University; Dr. Riffat Hassan, Professor in Humanities (Religious Studies) at the University of Louisville; and Dr. Sallie King, Professor of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University.