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Christianity and Human Rights
Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice
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2009
Summary
In Christianity and Human Rights: Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice, Frederick M. Shepherd has collected essays by scholars and activists who, in a wide variety of ways, confront the issue of Christianity's role in the burgeoning movement for human rights. The volume's contributors provide diverse perspectives on the theology behind the idea of human rights, the debate over the its meaning, and the evolution of the struggle for human rights. A wide variety of disciplinary perspectives are represented, from economics, political science and law to history, philosophy and theology. The essays also represent a broad political spectrum, including specific accounts from activists participating in the struggle for human rights. Separate chapters focus on cases from Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Christianity and Human Rights begins and ends with attempts to synthesize current theory and practice, acknowledging both Christianity's great success and its failures in defending basic human rights around the globe.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2472-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4009-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
270
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction. The Political and Theological Evolution of Christianity and Human Rights No access
Chapter One. Deliver Us from Evil: Genocide and the Christian World No access
Chapter Two. A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights No access
Chapter Three. Religious Freedom: A Challenge for the Church No access
Chapter Four. The Enduring Alliance of Religious Freedom and Democracy No access
Chapter Five. Religious Freedom and International Law No access
Chapter Six. Democracy and Human Dignity No access
Chapter Seven. Universal Rights or Personal Relations? No access
Chapter Eight. Human Rights, the Common Good, and Our Supernatural Destiny No access
Chapter Nine. Bozena Komárková: Toward an Existential Christian Philosophy of Human Rights No access
Chapter Ten. Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Rights, and Globalization No access
Chapter Eleven. Rights, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing No access
Chapter Twelve. The Rights of the Poor: Christian Theology and Human Rights Practices in Latin America’s Andean Region No access
Chapter Thirteen. Christianity and Human Rights in Vietnam: The Case of the Ethnic Minorities, 1975–2007 No access
Chapter Fourteen. From Human Rights to Human Wrongs: The Dramatic Turn-About of the South African Pentecostal Movement No access
Concluding Remarks on Christianityand Human Rights No access Pages 229 - 242
Bibliography No access Pages 243 - 256
Index No access Pages 257 - 264
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 265 - 270
