"Contents" [2012] ELECD 281; in Porsdam, Helle (ed), "Civil Religion, Human Rights and International Relations" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Civil Religion, Human Rights and International Relations

Editor(s): Porsdam, Helle

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781000519

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Contents
Acknowledgements vi
List of contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
Helle Porsdam

PART I THE THEORETICAL ISSUES
2 Human rights: a possible civil religion? 21
Helle Porsdam
3 A civil religion of human rights? 42
Paul W. Kahn
4 Patriotism and cosmopolitanism 59
Joel H. Rosenthal
5 Rights, religion, security: a Christian Realist perspective 73
Vibeke Schou Tjalve

PART II HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRACTICE
6 Faith and empire: American missionaries, humanitarianism,
and the spread of human rights 99
Andrew Preston
7 The United States and global human rights imagination of the
1940s 118
Mark Philip Bradley
8 Human rights and Dag Hammarskjöld 136
Bruce Kuklick
9 Human rights as lived experience: kinship, fictive kinship, and
human rights among trans-national migrants 151
Jay M. Winter
10 Hard secularism as intolerant civil religion: Denmark and the
Cartoon Case 178
Tøger Seidenfaden

Bibliography 192
Index 209


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