Papers Presented at the Conference

SESSION I

REVERENCE, CHRISTIAN VALUES, AND JUSTICE

Christian? University: Unmet Expectations of Christian Higher Education
Nicole Moore, Abilene Christian University

Reverence and Justice: “But We Have the Mind of Christ”

Vickie J. Smith, Abilene Christian University

Wardrobe Malfunctions: Confronting Culture and Reverence in the Classroom

Chandra Lewis-Qualls, Abilene Christian University

Silences of Reverence and Collaboration
Laura B. Carroll, Abilene Christian University

THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD

American Evangelists, Social Self-Interests, and Political Misalignments in Africa: Church-State Dilemmas in Multiple Contexts

R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College

The Challenge of Human Rights and Churches of Christ

Mel Hailey, Abilene Christian University

Christianity and Human Rights: A Sociological Assessment of the “Rise of the Religious Right in America” and the Consequences of that on Human Rights Concerns in the United States and the Third World

Samuel Zalanga, Bethel University

From Human Rights to Human Wrongs: The Dramatic Round-About-Turn of the Pentecostal Movement on Human Rights Issues, with Special Reference to South Africa

Nico Horn, Director, Human Rights Center, University of Namibia

WAR, FORGIVENESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Christian Pacifism: An Exemplification and Commitment to Human Rights

Dennis Sansom, Samford University

Just War and the Protection of Human Rights

Richard J. Dougherty, University of Dallas

Human Rights and the Promise of Political Forgiveness

Mark R. Amstutz, Wheaton College

Hearing and Speaking Freedom: On the Significance of Communicating Forgiveness in Christianity’s Quest for Human Rights

Rev. Paul E. Lutter, Marquette University

SESSION II

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Christianity and Human Rights in Vietnam : The Case of the Ethnic Minorities (1975-2004)

James F. Lewis, Bethel University

Hmong Christianity and Human Rights in Laos and Abroad (1950-2004)

Paoze Thao, California State University

Christianity and International Advocacy for Human Rights in Southeast Asia : Successes and Failures in Theory and Practice

Charles W. Weber, Wheaton College

CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrrowed, Something.....True! The Categoriality of Catholic Social Teaching
John Donovan, Mount Saint Mary’s College

Catholic Social Thought: Rights, Natural Law, and Pluralism
David McCarthy, Mount Saint Mary’s College

Public Order, the Common Good, and Our Supernatural Destiny
Dana Dillon, Duke University

HUMAN RIGHTS AND EDUCATION

Teaching Complexities: God, Evil, and Peacemaking in the 21st Century

Caryn D. Riswold, Illinois College

Challenges and Models of Teaching about Human Rights in the United States,

Joyce Apsel, New York University, Director, RightsWorks International

Christian Women’s Education in China in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Li Li, Salem State College

SESSION III

HUMAN RIGHTS AND ECONOMICS

Earth Rights Democracy: Public Finance based on Early Christian Teachings

Alanna Hartzok, Earth Rights Institute, International Union for Land Value Taxation

Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Rights, and Globalization

John Sniegocki, Xavier University

Rights, Capabilities and Human Flourishing

Jonathan Warner, Dordt College

CATHOLICISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Catholic Social Thought, Political Liberalism, and the Idea of Human Rights

Zachary Calo, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia

The Religious Imagination and Hearing the “Other”: Judge John T. Noonan, Catholic Social Teaching, and Immigration

Kathryn A. Lee, Eastern University

The “Grammar” of Human Rights: John Paul II on Human Nature and the Universal Moral Law

Eduardo Echeverria, Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit

The Ecclesia Pontificia & Human Rights Protection – Sovereign Powers, Diplomatic Practice & The State of the Roman Catholic Church

S.E.L. Dna. Maria F. St. Catherine Sharpe, Sovereign Order of the Royal Pontifical Ecclesiastical Diplomatic Mission Apostolate of the Laity of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Universal Church of Rome

SCRIPTURE, RITUAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Redefining Disability through Eucharist: That All Must Receive

Elizabeth Marie Melchionna, Yale Divinity School

Created in the Image of God: A Shared Hope for Understanding Human Rights Among Jews, Christians, and Muslims

David Bentley, Zwemer Institute Staff

Critiquing the Sovereign: Biblical Perspectives from Deuteronomy and Job

Mark Hamilton, Abilene Christian University

CHRISTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS IN EAST ASIA

Human Rights in Myanmar/Burma

Rosemary Fisk, Samford University

Roderick Davis, Samford University

Nung Suan Sian Tung, Samford University

North Korea Human Rights Crisis and Christian Response: A Korean American Perspective

Ilsup Ahn, the University of Chicago Divinity School

SESSION IV

HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA

Christian Human Rights Organisations and the Democratisation of Nigeria

Musa A. B. Gaiya, University of Jos, Nigeria

Sir Garfield Todd: Supporter of Black African Rights in Zimbabwe and his Reasonable Christian Rhetoric

Michael W. Casey, Pepperdine University

Human Rights and Persons with Disabilities in Developing Nations of Africa

David Anderson, Bethel University

CHRISTIANITY AND DISCRIMINATION

Christian Anthropology, Dehumanization, and Human Rights Abuses Against Women

Robert E. Williams, Pepperdine University

Racial Violence and Christian Identity: Interpretative Clashes of Christianity in the American South

Tonya Thames Leonard, West Chester University

CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS

Locke on Christianity and Rights

Matthew Simpson, Luther College

Are Religious Arguments for Human Rights Appropriate in Politics?

Brendan Sweetman, Rockhurst University

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; A Retrospective

Gayle Avant, Baylor University

Universal Rights or Personal Relations?

Patrick H. Byrne, Boston College

SESSION V

CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Christian Responses to Trafficking in Women from Eastern Europe

Mark Elliott, Director, Global Center, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University

Providing Justice for Women and Children through Legal Casework

Larry Martin, Vice-President, International Justice Mission

Children at Risk in Eastern Europe and Christian Effort on Their Behalf

Phyllis Kilbourn, International Director, Rainbows of Hope

“Christian” Human Rights Advocacy for Women and Children: Challenges for the Church

David Smolin, Cumberland Law School , Samford University

HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA

Christianity and Human Rights in Haiti since 1976

David Michel, Chicago Theological Seminary

The Rights of the Poor: Christian Theology and Human Rights Practices in Latin America’s Andean Region

Thomas Bamat, Director, Peace Research and Education Unit, Maryknoll

Free Trade Agreements and Human Rights: A Christian Perspective on Globalization

Kenneth Weare, University of San Francisco

Report On Governmental Interference With Activities of Coral Gables Congregational Church During Free Trade of Americas Summit Conference October-November, 2003, Miami-Dade County, Florida

Rev. Donna Schaper & Roy D. Wasson

INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Interreligious Dialogue and Human Rights

Terry C. Muck, Asbury Theological Seminary

Christianity, Islamic Shariah and Civil Rights

William Wagner, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Second Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention

Armenian Christians and Turkish Muslims: Atrocity, Denial and Identity

Christian van Gorder, Messiah College

CONTENDING PERSPECTIVES ON CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Grounding Human Rights: Two Christian Models

David Billings, Calvin College

Human Rights and Responsibilities: Christian Perspectives

Frances S. Adeney, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary

Against Scapegoating: Revisiting Rene Girard and Walter Wink’s Understanding of Christianity and Scapegoating

Keith Doubt, Wittenberg University

SESSION VI

CHRISTIANITY AND TOTALITARIANISM

Christianity as the Seedbed of Human Rights: The Critique of Fascism by British Churchmen in World War II

A.J. Hoover, Abilene Christian University

Post Communist Ideology, Eastern Orthodoxy and Human Rights. Reflections on the Possibility of Implementing the European Human Rights Regime in South-eastern Europe, with special reference to Romania and Bulgaria

Silviu Rogobete, West University of Timisoara

Postcommunist Believers in a Postmodern World

Dony K. Donev

Protestantism and Human Rights in Russia: Creation of the Alternative to the Authorities

Roman Lunkin, Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences

INFLUENTIAL WOMEN LEADERS AND THINKERS

Božena Komárková: Toward an Existential Christian Philosophy of Human Rights

Joyce J. Michael, Charles University, Prague

Dorothy Day and Poverty

Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University

“You Stand with Whoever’s Getting Their Head Bashed In”: Denise Giardina’s Literary-Political Vision

Martha Greene Eads, Eastern Mennonite University

SLAVERY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

A Christian Perspective Human Rights: The Case of Modern Day Slavery With Reference to the Indian Case

Adel Abadeer, Calvin College

Slavery, Human Dignity and Human Rights

John Warwick Montgomery, University of Luton, England; Paper presented by Alvin Schmidt, Illinois College

HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND PROSELYTIZATION

"There are No Universal Human Rights, Particularly for Proselytization"

David Thompson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Human Rights and the Ethics of Christian Proselytizing in Foreign Contexts

Jonathan Miles, University of Mississippi

The commitment to religious freedom is the surest path to securing and safeguarding human rights.

Joseph Loconte, William E. Simon Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Advocacy Avenues for International Religious Freedom

H. Knox Thames, Esq., Counsel US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe