Christianity and human rights reconsidered. Edited by Sarah Shortall, and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins,. (Human Rights in History.) Pp. xiv + 281 incl. 1 fig. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 42470 7

Christianity and human rights reconsidered. Edited by Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. (Human Rights in History.) Pp. xiv + 281 incl. 1 fig. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 42470 7

This collection of essays constitutes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of study that examines human rights talk in its varied Christian expressions. Most of the essays engage directly with Samuel Moyn's and Marco Duranti's path-breaking theses about a post-1945 ‘conservative human rights revolution’ (p. 3), but the collection includes free-standing case studies as well that take the discussion in new directions. Ten out of the thirteen chapters deal with Catholicism and only three focus on Protestant communities (each in North American liberal mainline contexts). Since no coverage is...