LEADER 02390cam a2200397Ii 4500001 9214187 005 20160531132926.0 008 150605s2015 pau b 001 0 eng d 003 hubpceuo 020 081224818X 020 9780812248180 035 (OCoLC)910773084 040 YDXCP |beng |erda |cYDXCP |dBTCTA |dOCLCQ |dSYB |dLAD |dRCJ |dCDN |dOCLCF 043 e------ 050 4 JC571 |b.M862 2015 082 323 100 1 Moyn, Samuel, |eauthor. 242 |yeng 245 10 Christian human rights / |cSamuel Moyn. 260 Philadelphia, PA : |bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, |c2015. 300 ix, 248 pages ; |c23 cm. 337 unmediated 490 1 Intellectual history of the modern age 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |gIntroduction -- |tThe secret history of human dignity -- |tThe human person and the reformulation of conservatism -- |tThe first historian of human rights -- |tFrom communist to Muslim : religious freedom and Christian legacies -- |gEpilogue. 520 "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. 650 0 Human rights. 650 0 Christianity and politics. 651 0 Europe |xPolitics and government |y1945- 830 0 Intellectual history of the modern age. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6323_000000000000000_MOY |70 |8REF |980523OSA |bOSA |d2016-05-31 |eOSA |l0 |o323 MOY |r2016-05-31 |w2016-05-31 |yBK |cReference 920 01 7el579or 992 01 323_000000000000000_MOY |bWXW_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_DB1 966 |cIn the Research Room