Religion, Human Rights, and Neo-liberalism in a Post-Humanist Era

In a modern and secularized world, churches and religious groups that fight in the public sphere for social justice justify these actions in the name of defending human rights. This has been the path taken to express in non-religious language what they understand to be a God-given mission. Based on...

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Auteur principal: Sung, Jung Mo 1957- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
Dans: The ecumenical review
Année: 2018, Volume: 70, Numéro: 1, Pages: 118-135
Classifications IxTheo:CH Christianisme et société
KDJ Œcuménisme
NCC Éthique sociale
NCD Éthique et politique
Sujets non-standardisés:B Church and society
B Social Justice
B religion and human rights
B theology and economics
B Neoliberalism
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Résumé:In a modern and secularized world, churches and religious groups that fight in the public sphere for social justice justify these actions in the name of defending human rights. This has been the path taken to express in non-religious language what they understand to be a God-given mission. Based on the distinction between civil rights, political rights, and social rights, which make up the set of human rights, this article analyzes the relationship between the notion of religious mission and the struggle for human rights; how neoliberal ideology, in an anti-humanist perspective, criticizes the notion of social rights and social justice with the denial of any human right above the laws of the market; and the challenges that this neoliberal ideology poses for the justification of the social and political action of religious groups and institutions in the contemporary globalized world with a growing post/anti-humanist culture.
ISSN:1758-6623
Contient:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12334