Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America 1st Edition

Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781531505042,153150504X,9781531505059, 1531505058

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1531505058
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781531505059
• Author: A. G. Roeber 

From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Ortho­dox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person.

Table contents:

1. Deferential Society and Church? Protestant to Orthodox Social Ethos

2. The Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Confrontation with Rights

3. Pluralism and the Rights of Freedom of Speech and Expression

4. Rights of and for a Self-Governed American Orthodox Church

5. “Greek” North American Orthodox Rights

6. The Orthodox, Sex, and Marriage before the Rights Revolution

7. The Orthodox, Gender, and Sexuality and the Rights Revolution

8. Human Rights Claims and the Orthodox in America

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