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Essays on Religion and Human Rights : Ground to Stand On.

By: Material type: TextCopyright date: ©2015Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (422 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316250044
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 201/.723
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Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by John Kelsay -- Introduction -- Part I. In Defense of Rights -- 1 Ground to Stand On: A Philosophical Reappraisal of Human Rights Language -- 2 Critical Reflections on The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn -- Part II. Religion and Rights -- 3 Religion, Human Rights, and the Secular State: Clarifications and Some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Responses -- 4 Religion, Human Rights, and Public Reason: Protecting the Freedom of Religion or Belief -- 5 Rethinking Religious Tolerance: A Human Rights Approach -- 6 A Bang or a Whimper? Assessing Some Recent Challenges to Special Protection for Religion in the United States -- 7 Religion and Human Rights: A Personal Testament -- Part III. Religion and the History of Rights -- 8 Religion, Peace, and the Origins of Nationalism -- 9 Roger Williams and the Puritan Background of the Establishment Clause -- Part IV. Public Policy and the Restraint of Force -- 10 Terrorism, Public Emergency, and International Order: The U.S. Example, 2001-2014 -- 11 The Role of the Academic in Times of War -- 12 Obama and Niebuhr: Religion and American Foreign Policy -- Afterword: Ethics, Religion, and Human Consciousness -- Appendix: Ethics and Scholarship -- Index.
Summary: This collection of essays addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays and a foreword by noted religious ethicist John Kelsay, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.
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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by John Kelsay -- Introduction -- Part I. In Defense of Rights -- 1 Ground to Stand On: A Philosophical Reappraisal of Human Rights Language -- 2 Critical Reflections on The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn -- Part II. Religion and Rights -- 3 Religion, Human Rights, and the Secular State: Clarifications and Some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Responses -- 4 Religion, Human Rights, and Public Reason: Protecting the Freedom of Religion or Belief -- 5 Rethinking Religious Tolerance: A Human Rights Approach -- 6 A Bang or a Whimper? Assessing Some Recent Challenges to Special Protection for Religion in the United States -- 7 Religion and Human Rights: A Personal Testament -- Part III. Religion and the History of Rights -- 8 Religion, Peace, and the Origins of Nationalism -- 9 Roger Williams and the Puritan Background of the Establishment Clause -- Part IV. Public Policy and the Restraint of Force -- 10 Terrorism, Public Emergency, and International Order: The U.S. Example, 2001-2014 -- 11 The Role of the Academic in Times of War -- 12 Obama and Niebuhr: Religion and American Foreign Policy -- Afterword: Ethics, Religion, and Human Consciousness -- Appendix: Ethics and Scholarship -- Index.

This collection of essays addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays and a foreword by noted religious ethicist John Kelsay, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.

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