Christian Human Rights

Discover the Christian roots of modern human rights with Samuel Moyn's comprehensive analysis. Moyn argues that the dignity of the human person, as championed by Christian churches and religious thought before World War II, inspired the rise of human rights after the war. Explore how the language of human rights was separated from the secular heritage of the French Revolution and used by postwar democracies with Christian parties. The book ends with a thought-provoking chapter on contemporary struggles to integrate Muslim immigrants into Europe's legacy of Christian human rights.