{"product_id":"essays-on-religion-and-human-rights-ground-to-stand-on-hardback-9781107072626","title":"Essays on Religion and Human Rights; Ground to Stand On (Hardback) 9781107072626","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEssays on Religion and Human Rights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGround to Stand On\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Little (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107072626, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 March 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis collection of essays by David Little addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays, Little articulates his view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain, injury, and destruction for self-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus, developed in response, was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force. He contends that while there must be an accountable human rights standard, it should guarantee latitude for the expression and practice of beliefs, consistent with outlawing arbitrary force. Little details the theoretical grounds of the relationship between religion and human rights, and concludes with essays on US policy and the restraint of force in regard to terrorism. With a foreword by John Kelsay, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Foreword John Kelsay\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. In Defense of Rights: 1. Ground to stand on\u003cbr\u003e 2. Critical reflections on The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Religion and Rights: 3. Religion, human rights, and the secular state\u003cbr\u003e 4. Religion, human rights, and public reason: protecting the freedom of religion or belief\u003cbr\u003e 5. Rethinking tolerance: a human rights approach\u003cbr\u003e 6. A bang or a whimper?: Assessing some recent challenges to religious freedom in the United States\u003cbr\u003e 7. Religion and human rights: a personal testament\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Religion and the History of Rights: 8. Religion, peace, and the origins of nationalism\u003cbr\u003e 9. Roger Williams and the Puritan background of the establishment clause\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Public Policy and the Restraint of Force: 10. Terrorism, public emergency, and international order\u003cbr\u003e 11. The academic in times of war\u003cbr\u003e 12. Obama and Niebuhr: religion and American foreign policy\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: ethics, religion, and human consciousness: further reflections on a 'two-tiered' or 'bifocal' approach to justification\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Ethics and scholarship\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: International human rights law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International human rights law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20human%20rights%20law%20%5BLBBR%5D%22\"\u003eLBBR\u003c\/a\u003e], Law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Law%20%5BL%5D%22\"\u003eL\u003c\/a\u003e], Human rights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human rights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20rights%20%5BJPVH%5D%22\"\u003eJPVH\u003c\/a\u003e], Religious ethics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religious ethics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religious%20ethics%20%5BHRAM1%5D%22\"\u003eHRAM1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265583632664,"sku":"9781107072626","price":66.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107072626i.jpg?v=1692024480","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/essays-on-religion-and-human-rights-ground-to-stand-on-hardback-9781107072626","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}