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Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Woman as Other -- The Other Revised -- The Feminine Mystique -- The Second Stage -- Black Women's Experience -- The Black Female Slave Experience -- Reconstruction -- Experience of Motherhood -- Menstruation -- Reclamation of Nature -- Pacifism -- Lesbian Existence -- Conclusion -- Origins of Praxis-Based Theologies -- Praxis in Political Theology -- Praxis as the Point of Departure -- A Reckless Dream? -- Praxis and Liberation Theology -- Critical Reflection on Praxis -- Juan Luis Segundo -- Jose Miguez Bonino -- Critical Correlation

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs. From the formal promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to the subsequent embrace of this declaration by the newly independent states of Africa, human rights have emerged as the primary discourse of global politics and as an increasingly prominent category in the international and domestic legal system. But throughout their history, human rights have endured sustained attempts at disenfranchisement. In this provocative study, Linda Hogan defends human rights language while simultaneously reenvisi

ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag setzt sich mit der Bedeutung der Menschenrechte in der Christlichen Sozialethik auseinander und benennt Herausforderungen, die mit der Rezeption der Enzyklika Pacem in terris verbunden sind. In einem ersten Schritt werden die politischen und theologischen Kontexte der Entstehung der Enzyklika beleuchtet. Anschließend wird diskutiert, auf welche Weise Pacem in terris die Sprachformen christlichen Sozialengagements transformierte und dabei – trotz des seit langer Zeit bestehenden Verdachtes des Lehramtes gegen die Kategorie der Menschenrechte – für die Menschenrechte plädierte. Dann wird die These entwickelt, dass das Hauptverdienst von Pacem in terris in der Verbindung von Menschenrechtspolitik und Friedenspolitik für die Christliche Sozialethik bestand. Schließlich werden herausfordernde Aspekte der Rezeption dieser innovativen und bedeutenden Enzyklika diskutiert.AbstractThis paper reflects on the significance of human rights in Christian social ethics and considers the challenges associated with the reception of the encyclical. In a first step, it provides an analysis of the political and theological contexts from which Pacem in terris emerged. It then discusses how Pacem in terris has transformed the language of Christian social commitment and promoted human rights notwithstanding the tradition's longstanding suspicion of the category of human rights. It suggests that one of the most important contributions wrought by Pacem in terris was the manner in which it brought the politics of human rights and the politics of peace into a seamless Christian social ethic and it ends with a discussion of the challenges associated with the reception of this transformative and iconic encyclical.

This essay reads Politics and Passion as a philosophical complement to theological projects that see no innate conflict between Christianity & liberalism & considers the significance of Waltzer's "more egalitarian liberalism" from the perspective of one who believes there to be compelling theological, ethical & political grounds for "making common cause" with liberalism. Liberal human rights discourse provides the lens through which this case is argued. This essay endorses the revisions proposed in Politics and Passion & suggests that developments in human rights discourse since the early twentieth century allows one to regard this discourse as a still unfinished version of Waltzer's more egalitarian liberalism. I argue that it is precisely because of the pressures identified by Waltzer that a thicker, more contextually varied conceptualization of rights has been generated. Moreover, when human rights language is understood as a discourse of egalitarian rather than emancipatory liberalism, then the claims that it is irredeemably secular, individualistic & voluntaristic, & that its adoption will result in the marginalization of Christian narrative traditions, are no longer tenable. References. Adapted from the source document.

Drawing on political philosophy and theology, theory and practice, this essay collection tackles the complex questions arising from the interface of religion and public life. It Includes critical analyses of theorists Rawls, Stout and Habermas, and discussion of key issues such as religious education and human rights