Last summer I read All Can Be Saved by the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, Stuart Schwartz. It’s a…
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Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
Christianity and human rights at Religion Dispatches
As part of a joint project, Religion Dispatches contributing editor Austin Dacey has written a series of posts on The Immanent Frame's recent…
Christianity, contemporary legacies, and the critique of secularism
My last post took my response up to the twentieth century invention of “Christian human rights.” This one engages with crucial…
Truth and triviality: Christianity, natural law, and human rights
For every phenomenon there is an indefinite, if not infinite, number of both continuities and discontinuities with what came before.…
Where is America in human rights history?
What is the place of the United States in the history of Christian human rights? This question is worth entertaining…
Samuel Moyn and the history of natural right
Within historical approaches to questions of natural right, one can approximately distinguish three main tendencies. The first is a whiggish…
Roots and routes of rights
Over the past four decades, a cottage industry of important new scholarship has emerged dedicated to the history of rights…
Catholics, anti-Semitism, and the human rights swerve
In signature style, Sam Moyn is poised to launch another spectacular provocation with his forthcoming Christian Human Rights. Building on…
Is secularism still Christian?
In January 2013, hundreds of thousands of French Catholics marched down the streets of Paris to protest the “Marriage For…