TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moyn,Samuel
TI  - Christian human rights
T2  - Intellectual history of the modern age
SN  - 081224818X
AV  - JC571 .M862 2015
U1  - 323 23
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Menschenrecht
KW  - gnd
KW  - Würde
KW  - Christentum
KW  - Europe
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Europa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; The secret history of human dignity --; The human person and the reformulation of conservatism --; The first historian of human rights --; From communist to Muslim : religious freedom and Christian legacies --; Epilogue
N2  - "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
ER  -