Christianity and Human Rights
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Christianity and Human Rights

Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Christianity and Human Rights

Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction. The Political and Theological Evolution of Christianity and Human Rights
  4. Part One. PAST SINS, FUTURE PROMISE: OVERVIEWS OF CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
  5. Chapter One. Deliver Us from Evil: Genocide and the Christian World
  6. Chapter Two. A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights
  7. Part Two. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
  8. Chapter Three. Religious Freedom: A Challenge for the Church
  9. Chapter Four. The Enduring Alliance of Religious Freedom and Democracy
  10. Chapter Five. Religious Freedom and International Law
  11. Chapter Six. Democracy and Human Dignity
  12. Part Three. Theological and Philosophical Foundations for Human Rights
  13. Chapter Seven. Universal Rights or Personal Relations?
  14. Chapter Eight. Human Rights, the Common Good, and Our Supernatural Destiny
  15. Chapter Nine. Bozena Komárková: Toward an Existential Christian Philosophy of Human Rights
  16. Chapter Ten. Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Rights, and Globalization
  17. Chapter Eleven. Rights, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing
  18. Part Four. CASE STUDIES
  19. Chapter Twelve. The Rights of the Poor: Christian Theology and Human Rights Practices in Latin America’s Andean Region
  20. Chapter Thirteen. Christianity and Human Rights in Vietnam: The Case of the Ethnic Minorities, 1975–2007
  21. Chapter Fourteen. From Human Rights to Human Wrongs: The Dramatic Turn-About of the South African Pentecostal Movement
  22. Concluding Remarks on Christianityand Human Rights
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About the Editor and Contributors