Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The account of i

This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores

Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of digni

This collection examines theoretical and practical issues concerning the relationship between freedom of religion or belief and other fundamental rights, in the