We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and
unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral
indignation and the political will needed both to combat them
effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were
a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the
determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a
better society, and specifically those that have done so under the
banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges to human rights
arising from religious movements and political theologies that
claim the presence of religion in the public sphere. Increasingly
globalized, such movements and the theologies sustaining them
promote discourses of human dignity that rival, and often
contradict, the one underlying secular human rights. Conventional
or hegemonic human rights thinking lacks the necessary theoretical
and analytical tools to position itself in relation to such
movements and theologies; even worse, it does not understand the
importance of doing so. It applies the same abstract recipe across
the board, hoping that thereby the nature of alternative discourses
and ideologies will be reduced to local specificities with no
impact on the universal canon of human rights. As this strategy
proves increasingly lacking, this book aims to demonstrate that
only a counter-hegemonic conception of human rights can adequately
face such challenges.
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