Legitimizing human rights : secular and religious perspectives

Legitimizing human rights : secular and religious perspectives / edited by Angus J.L. Menuge.

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuge's edited collection offer a range of secular and religious responses to this fundamental question of the legitimacy of human rights claims. This topical book is of interest to a range of academics from di...

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Other Authors: Menuge, Angus J. L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Series:Applied legal philosophy.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Human rights > Religious aspects.
Secularism.
Human rights
Human rights > Religious aspects
Secularism
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Table of Contents:
  • Grounding human rights : naturalism's failure and biblical theism's success / Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic University
  • Theism and human rights / Paul Cliteur, University of Leiden
  • Why human rights cannot be naturalized : the contingency problem / Angus Menuge, Concordia University Wisconsin
  • Human rights as legal rights / Friedrich Toepel, University of Bonn
  • Religious liberty and the secular state : human rights in a secular state will depend on its legal definition of religion / John Calvert, Intelligent Design Network
  • Balancing secularism with religious freedom : in Lautsi v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights evolved / Vito Breda, University of Cardiff
  • Restrictions on religious liberty : when and where justified? / John Warwick Montgomery, Patrick Henry College
  • Enforcing and motivating human rights : retribution as a fundamental human right / Hendrik Kaptein, University of Leiden
  • The motivation to protect and advance human rights : a faith based approach / Dallas Miller, Judge of the Queen's Bench of Alberta
  • Why is man the primary and functional way for the church? the involvement of Christian teaching in contemporary human rights discourse / Dobrochna Bach-Golecka, University of Warsaw.

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