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Review: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights And The Challenge Of Religion, Bharat Ranganathan
Review: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights And The Challenge Of Religion, Bharat Ranganathan
Religion Faculty Publications
Since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the language of human rights has become a lingua franca among many jurists, philosophers, and theologians. But over the same period of time, the universalist aspirations of human rights language have also attracted myriad critics, both religious and secular. For these critics, the language of human rights isn’t sufficiently common to identify, discuss, and adjudicate moral and political issues. In The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion, the rightly influential human rights scholar Johannes Morsink develops an argument that …