Legitimizing Human Rights : Secular and Religious Perspectives
Angus J.L. Menuge
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (232 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The Foundation of Human Rights; 1 Grounding Human Rights: Naturalism's Failure and Biblical Theism's Success; 2 Theism and Human Rights; 3 Why Human Rights Cannot be Naturalized: The Contingency Problem; 4 Human Rights as Legal Rights; Part II Religious Liberty and the Secular State; 5 Human Rights in a Secular State Will Depend on its Legal Definition of Religion; 6 Balancing Secularism with Religious Freedom; 7 Restrictions on Religious Freedom: When and How Justified?. - Part III Enforcing and Motivating Human Rights8 No Human Rights without Retribution: Plights and Promises of Redress as if Nothing Happened; 9 The Motivation to Protect and Advance Human Rights: A Faith-Based Approach; 10 Why is Man the Primary and Functional Way for the Church?: The Involvement of Christian Teaching; Index. - When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuge's edited collection offer a range of secular and religious responses to this fundamental question of the legitimacy of human rights claims. This topical book is of interest to a range of academics from disciplines spanning law, philosophy, religion and politics.
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| ISBN | 9781409450023
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