Table of Contents

Part 1: Context
1: Concepts and Cases
2: Ideology
3: Institutions
Part 2: Problems
4: The Teleological Problem
5: The Epistemological Problem
6: The Ontological Problem
Part 3: Ways Forward
7: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Rights Theory
8: How Should Courts Approach Religious Litigation?
9: How Should Religions Approach Human Rights?

About the Author

Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen's University, Belfast; William W Cook Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School; and a practising barrister at Blackstone Chambers in London. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of numerous titles, including: Buying Social Justice (OUP, 2007); Courts and Consociations: Human Rights versus Power-Sharing (OUP, 2013); and editor of
Understanding Human Dignity (OUP, 2013).