Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Catholic cosmopolitan and the birth of human rights; 2. Catholic cosmopolitanism from the centre to the periphery; 3. Catholic cosmopolitanism from the periphery to international concern; 4. Locating a modern Christian cosmopolitanism; 5. An imperfect cosmopolitan project; Conclusion.

About the author

Leonard Taylor is a graduate of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in National University of Ireland, Galway, where he lectures in human rights law. He is also an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Sligo.

Summary

Western legal culture looked to the Christian religion for its foundational cosmopolitan ideas, and at the beginnings of the human rights movement returned to that moral vocabulary to ground the further growth of the international order in the twentieth century.

Additional text

'This timely and challenging book takes us beyond the traditional histories of human rights law, exploring its often neglected roots in and links to the contested cosmopolitanism of Catholicism. Understanding the roots and limits of the modern human rights project requires continuous reflection and an openness to new ways of thinking about the ruptures that human rights claims seek to provoke. Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights will be an indispensable resource for all scholars and historians of the human rights project, and for critical and sympathetic observers of Catholicism's claims to universalism.' Siobhán Mullally, Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at National University of Ireland Galway

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Francis Taylor, Leonard Francis (National University of Ir Taylor, Leonard Francis (National University of Ireland Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108486125
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48612-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Legal History, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Human rights, civil rights