Human Rights and Christianity: Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice focuses on Christianity's role in the global struggle for human rights. It includes essays by prominent figures in fields such as law, philosophy, psychology and theology, and synthesizes current thinking on global efforts for justice.

In Christianity and Human Rights: Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice, Frederick M. Shepherd has collected essays by scholars and activists who, in a wide variety of ways, confront the issue of Christianity's role in the burgeoning movement for human rights. The volume's contributors provide diverse perspectives on the theology behind the idea of human rights, the debate over the its meaning, and the evolution of the struggle for human rights. A wide variety of disciplinary perspectives are represented, from economics, political science and law to history, philosophy and theology. The essays also represent a broad political spectrum, including specific accounts from activists participating in the struggle for human rights. Separate chapters focus on cases from Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Christianity and Human Rights begins and ends with attempts to synthesize current theory and practice, acknowledging both Christianity's great success and its failures in defending basic human rights around the globe.

Part 1 Introduction: The Political and Theological Evolution of Christianity and Human Rights
Part 2 Section One: Past Sins, Future Promise: Overivews of Christianity and Human Rights
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Deliver Us from Evil: Genocide and the Christian World
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times:" A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights
Part 5 Section Two: Religious Freedom and Human Rights
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Toward a More Comprehensive Religious Freedom
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Enduring Alliance of Religious Freedom and Democratic Rights
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Religious Freedom and International Law
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Democracy and Human Dignity
Part 10 Section Three: Theological and Philosophical Foundations for Human Rights
Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Universal Rights or Personal Relations?
Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Human Rights, the Common Good and Our Supernatural Destiny
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Bozena Komarkova: Toward an Existential Christian Philosophy of Human Rights
Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Catholic Social Teaching, Economic Rights, and Globalization
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Rights, Capabilites and Human Flourishing
Part 16 Section Four: Case Studies
Chapter 17 Chapter 12: The Rights of the Poor: Christian Theology and Human Rights Practices in Latin America's Adean Region
Chapter 18 Chapter 13: Christianity and Human Rights in Vietnam: The Case of Ethnic Minorities (1975–2004)
Chapter 19 Chapter 14: From Human Rights to Human Wrongs: The Dramatic Turn of the South African Pentecostal Movement on Human Rights Issues
Part 20 Conclusion: Conclusing Remarks of Christianity and Human Rights