TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morsink,Johannes
TI  - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the challenge of religion
SN  - 9780826220844
AV  - K3241 M886 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Columbia, Missouri
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - United Nations
KW  - General Assembly
KW  - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Human rights and globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-386) and index; Independent access to moral basics -- Statecraft and religious freedoms -- US religiosity and the duty of civility -- Islam and the Universal Declaration -- Secularism defended -- The contribution of religion -- Human rights as an independent force in world affairs
N2  - Discusses the role of religion in the collective response to the horrors of the Holocaust. It shows that the benign secularism of the UDHR was crafted with the cooperation of all of the world's major religions. The book also defends this liberal view against conservative and literalist religious forces in the United States and in Muslim majority countries
ER  -