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Christian Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Christian Human Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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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. The Roman Catholic Church and
transatlantic Protestant circles dominated the public discussion of
the new principles in what became the last European golden age for
the Christian faith. At the same time, West European governments
after World War II, particularly in the ascendant Christian
Democratic parties, became more tolerant of public expressions of
religious piety. Human rights rose to public prominence in the
space opened up by these dual developments of the early Cold War.
Moyn argues that human dignity became central to Christian
political discourse as early as 1937. Pius XII's wartime Christmas
addresses announced the basic idea of universal human rights as a
principle of world, and not merely state, order. 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.
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