caa a22 4500 388113286 CHVBK 20180307125359.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051776 doi S0748081400004379 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051776 Cahill Lisa Sowle Rights as Religious or Secular: Why Not Both? [Elektronische Daten] [Lisa Sowle Cahill] Michael Perry has written a nuanced, insightful, provocative, often sensible, frequently convincing, and ultimately perplexing book. I am not sure what his thesis is. Since he titles the book as a series of "inquiries,” perhaps he doesn't have a unified thesis, or need one. And as an extended set of ponderings over the complexities of defining and defending human rights, this book certainly "works.” The book's apparent thesis is set out in the introduction and repeated frequently thereafter: that it is not possible to understand talk about human rights, such as that contained in the International Bill of Human Rights, in secular terms. Instead, "the idea of human rights is ... ineliminably religious.” This is so because the idea of human rights requires affirming that each person is "sacred” in relation to a holistic view of the world and its meaning, so that there are certain things that should not be done to and that should be done for any person. The only sort of view of the world and of the person within it that can ground the idea of human rights is a religious view, Perry suggests; there is no secular equivalent. Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1999 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 14/1(1999), 41-52 0748-0814 14:1<41 1999 14 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051776 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051776 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cahill Lisa Sowle NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 14/1(1999), 41-52 0748-0814 14:1<41 1999 14 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge