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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review"Samuel Moyn has emerged as the most important voice on the history of human rights in the twentieth century, and his book
Christian Human Rights will be of interest to anyone who cares about human rights in general and the often forgotten context of the run-up to the Universal Declaration in particular." * Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University *
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Christian Human Rights is consistently and stimulatingly opinionated. Samuel Moyn maintains throughout his book an excellent and authentic vigor, demonstrating that the genesis of modern human-rights rhetoric can be found in a largely conservative Christian worldview that took shape in Western Europe (as well as in North America) in the 1940s." * Martin Conway, University of Oxford *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. The Secret History of Human Dignity
Chapter 2. The Human Person and the Reformulation of Conservatism
Chapter 3. The First Historian of Human Rights
Chapter 4. From Communist to Muslim: Religious Freedom and Christian Legacies
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
