Christianity and Human Rights
Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2009
294 pages
978-0-7391-4009-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-4009-3 (9780739140093)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Political and Theological Evolution of Christianity and Human Rights
- Part One. PAST SINS, FUTURE PROMISE: OVERVIEWS OF CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- Chapter One. Deliver Us from Evil: Genocide and the Christian World
- Chapter Two. A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights
- Part Two. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- Chapter Three. Religious Freedom: A Challenge for the Church
- Chapter Four. The Enduring Alliance of Religious Freedom and Democracy
- Chapter Five. Religious Freedom and International Law
- Chapter Six. Democracy and Human Dignity
- Part Three. Theological and Philosophical Foundations for Human Rights
- Chapter Seven. Universal Rights or Personal Relations?
- Chapter Eight. Human Rights, the Common Good, and Our Supernatural Destiny
- Chapter Nine. Bozena Komárková: Toward an Existential Christian Philosophy of Human Rights
- Chapter Ten. Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Rights, and Globalization
- Chapter Eleven. Rights, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing
- Part Four. CASE STUDIES
- Chapter Twelve. The Rights of the Poor: Christian Theology and Human Rights Practices in Latin America's Andean Region
- Chapter Thirteen. Christianity and Human Rights in Vietnam: The Case of the Ethnic Minorities, 1975-2007
- Chapter Fourteen. From Human Rights to Human Wrongs: The Dramatic Turn-About of the South African Pentecostal Movement
- Concluding Remarks on Christianityand Human Rights
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors
