Christian human rights / Samuel Moyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyn, Samuel, author.

Series:

Intellectual history of the modern age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Christianity and politics.

Europe--Politics and government--1945-.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 248 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Summary:

"In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war....By focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, Moyn demonstrates how the language of human rights was separated from the secular heritage of the French Revolution and put to use by postwar democracies governed by Christian parties, which reinvented them to impose moral constraints on individuals, support conservative family structures, and preserve existing social hierarchies. The book ends with a provocative chapter that traces contemporary European struggles to assimilate Muslim immigrants to the continent's legacy of Christian human rights"--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The secret history of human dignity

The human person and the reformulation of conservatism

The first historian of human rights

From communist to Muslim : religious freedom and Christian legacies

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081224818X

9780812248180

OCLC:

910773084