Catholic Church and Transnational Moral Norms in the Philippines - Contraception, Human Trafficking, and Religion

List of contents

1."Cain, Where Is Your Brother?"
2. Norm Thickening and the Role of Religion
3. How the Catholic Church Thickens Transnational Moral Norms
4. Doctrinal Sources of the Catholic Church's Approach to Contraception
5. Thickening Contraception Norms at the Intergovernmental Level
6. Thickening Contraception Norms in the Philippines
7. The Development of "Thin" Norms against Human Trafficking
8. How the Church Thickens Transnational Anti-Trafficking Norms
9. Thickening Anti-Trafficking Norms in the Philippines
10. Catholic Norm Thickening and the Power of Particular Morality

Summary

Chow explores the Roman Catholic Church’s engagement with transnational human rights norms and how its understandings of Catholic identity and doctrine have profoundly shaped the politics surrounding contraception and human trafficking in the Philippines.

Product details

• Authors: Chow, Jonathan T. Chow, Jonathan T. (University of Macau Chow
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9781138313880
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31388-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, South East Asia, Religion & politics, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Religion and Politics, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, International institutions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General