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Introduction: The political and theological evolution of Christianity and human rights / Frederick M. Shepherd

Past sins, future promise : overviews of Christianity and human rights

Deliver us from evil : genocide and the Christian world / James E. Waller

A Dickensian era of religious rights / John Witte, Jr.

Religious freedom and human rights

Religous freedom : a challenge for the church / Johannes A. van der Ven

The enduring alliance of religious freedom and democracy / Joseph Loconte

Religious freedom and international law / Robert F. Drinan

Democracy and human dignity / Jean Bethke Elshtain

Theological and philosophical foundations for human rights

Universal rights or personal relations? / Patrick Byrne

Human rights, the common good, and our supernatural destiny / Dana L. Dillon

Božena Koma︠rkova︠ : toward an existential Christian philosophy of human rights / Joyce J. Michael

Catholic social teaching, economic rights, and globalization / John Sniegocki

Rights, capabilities, and human flourishing / Jonathan Warner

Case studies

The rights of the poor : Christian theology and human rights practices in Latin America's Andean Region / Thomas Bamat

Christianity and human rights in Vietnam : the case of ethnic minorities, 1975-2007 / James F. Lewis

From human rights to human wrongs : the dramatic turn-about of the South African Pentecostal Movement / Nico Horn

Concluding remarks on Christianity and human rights / Frederick M. Shepherd.