Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition

David Hollenbach's Human Rights in a Divided World argues that cultural differences and economic inequality undermine the universality of human rights. He provides a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the challenges to human rights and suggests that Catholic ethics and practice make important developments rooted in Catholic ethics.

Format: Hardback
Length: 260 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2024
Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Human rights are essential for protecting the dignity and well-being of all people, but in today's deeply divided world, some argue that cultural differences and economic inequality undermine their universality. In Human Rights in a Divided World, David Hollenbach offers a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the challenges to human rights, suggesting that today's global realities call for important developments rooted in Catholic ethics. This work of theological social ethics draws on a range of disciplines to address the question of whether or not human rights remain valid as universal standards for action in a multicultural, religiously pluralistic, and economically unequal world. Hollenbach provides a compelling account of the contribution that Catholic ethics and practice make to an unequal world. He applies the proposed understanding of human rights to several issues that are much debated today, including religious freedom, the rights of refugees and other forced migrants, economic rights in the face of significant inequality, and the rights of women. Human Rights in a Divided World offers a clear path forward for the church in its engagement with politics and guidance for students of human rights as well as those working to advance them.

Weight: 499g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647124267