The Politics of Religion and Human Rights
Amy Black Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Allen D. Hertzke, Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). 419 pp. $27.95
In recent years, I have learned to expect occasional phone calls from reporters searching for pithy quotes on some aspect of religion and American politics. In 2005, however, I noticed a dramatic shift in the subject matter of these inquiries. With the exception of an Eastern European radio journalist calling about a public school canceling Halloween festivities, every media interview I conducted last year was a variation on the same theme: What accounts for the expansion of the evangelical political agenda? Why do members of the Christian Right suddenly seem to care about international issues?
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