Essays on religion and human rights : ground to stand on / David Little, Berkley Center of Religion, Peace, and International Affairs, Georgetown Universtiy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, David, 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Religious aspects.

Human rights.

Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

Essays on Religion & Human Rights

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This collection of essays by David Little addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays, Little articulates his view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain, injury, and destruction for self-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus, developed in response, was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force. He contends that while there must be an accountable human rights standard, it should guarantee latitude for the expression and practice of beliefs, consistent with outlawing arbitrary force. Little details the theoretical grounds of the relationship between religion and human rights, and concludes with essays on US policy and the restraint of force in regard to terrorism. With a foreword by John Kelsey, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.

Contents:

Part I. In Defense of Rights. Ground to stand on: a philosophical reappraisal of human rights language ; Critical reflections on The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn

Part II. Religion and Rights. Religion, human rights, and the secular state: clarifications and some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian responses ; Religion, human rights, and public reason: protecting the freedom of religion or belief ; Rethinking tolerance: a human rights approach ; A bang or a whimper?: assessing some recent challenges to religious freedom in the United States ; Religion and human rights: a personal testament

Part III. Religion and the History of Rights. Religion, peace, and the origins of nationalism ; Roger Williams and the Puritan background of the establishment clause

Part IV. Public Policy and the Restraint of Force. Terrorism, public emergency, and international order: the U.S. example, 2001-2014 ; The role of the academic in times of war ; Obama and Niebuhr: religion and American foreign policy

Afterword: Ethics, religion, and human consciousness

Appendix: Ethics and scholarship.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139680516

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.