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Christian human rights [2015]
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Christian human rights / Samuel Moyn.
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Published
Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
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ix, 248 pages ; 23 cm.
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Intellectual history of the modern age.
Contents 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.
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Human rights.
Christianity and politics.
Europe Politics and government 1945-
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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.
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081224818X
9780812248180
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Christian human rights [2015]
In Research Room
BookIconBook
Cover
General Information
General Information
Original Title
Christian human rights / Samuel Moyn.
General Information
Published
Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
General Information
Physical Description
ix, 248 pages ; 23 cm.
General Information
Series
Intellectual history of the modern age.
Contents 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.
Subjects
Subject Terms
Human rights.
Christianity and politics.
Europe Politics and government 1945-
Bibliographic Information
Content
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.
Bibliographic Information
ISBN
081224818X
9780812248180
Holdings
Book - 323 MOY
Item Type
Book
Current Location
OSA Archivum Library
Current Location
OSA Archivum Library
Call Number
323 MOY
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