Legitimizing Human Rights : Secular and Religious Perspectives.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The Foundation of Human Rights -- 1 Grounding Human Rights: Naturalism's Failure and Biblical Theism's Success -- 2 Theism and Human Rights -- 3 Why Human Rights Cannot be Naturalized: The Contingency Problem -- 4 Human Rights as Legal Rights -- Part II Religious Liberty and the Secular State -- 5 Human Rights in a Secular State Will Depend on its Legal Definition of Religion -- 6 Balancing Secularism with Religious Freedom -- 7 Restrictions on Religious Freedom: When and How Justified? -- Part III Enforcing and Motivating Human Rights -- 8 No Human Rights without Retribution: Plights and Promises of Redress as if Nothing Happened -- 9 The Motivation to Protect and Advance Human Rights: A Faith-Based Approach -- 10 Why is Man the Primary and Functional Way for the Church?: The Involvement of Christian Teaching -- Index.

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 disciplines spanning law, philosophy, religion and politics.

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