Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice

Zhibin Xie is Professor of Philosophy at Tongji University, Shanghai, P. R. China. He is a research fellow of the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies (Hong Kong), an honorary research associate of the Center for Christian Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. His research interests include Christian philosophy and ethics, public theology, religion and politics in China. His major publications include Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China (in English, Ashgate, 2006), Public Theology and Globalization: A Study in Max Stackhouse's Christian Ethics (in Chinese, Religious Culture Press, 2008), and Why Public? How Theological? A Retrospect and Prospect for Sino-Christian Public Theology (in Chinese, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016). He has presented at various international conferences including the UK, USA, Germany and South Africa.Pauline Kollontai is Professor of Higher Education in Theology and Religious Studies, and she is Director for the Centre for Religion in Society at York St John University. Prof. Kollontai worked previously at the University of Leeds in the School of Adult Education and at the University of Bradford in the Department of Peace Studies. Her academic qualifications are in the disciplines of Peace Studies and Theology and Religious Studies. Her research focuses on religions and peace-building; religion and social justice; religion, democracy and minority rights. Prof. Kollontai has been co-editor of a number of books which include Community Identity: Dynamics of Religion in Context (T&T Clark, 2007); Peace and Reconciliation: In Search of Shared Identity (Ashgate, 2008); Religion Creating Cultures of Peace, Vols, II & III (Nanumsa 2012); Mediating Peace: Reconciliation through Visual Art, Music and Film, (Cambridge Scholars Press 2015); Who is My Neighbour? Crossing Boundaries of Prejudice and Distrust, (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2017). She regularly presents at national and international conferences, consultations and symposiums. Since 2008 Prof. Kollontai has also taught at Meijii University Tokyo; Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary in Seoul, South Korea; Kaye Academic College of Higher Education, Be'er Sheva, Israel. She has recently been appointed to be a Resident Visiting Research Scholar in 2019 at the Centre of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA, working alongside other international scholars on the issues of religion and violence.Sebastian Kim is Professor of Theology and Public Life and Assistant Provost for the Korean Studies Centre at Fuller Theological Seminary. He joined Fuller Seminary faculty in 2017, coming from York St John University in the UK where he held the Chair in Theology and Public Life in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy for 12 years. Prior to joining York St John University, he was Director of the Christianity in Asia project and taught world Christianity in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He also taught at Union Biblical Seminary in India and was Interim Director of the Henry Martyn Centre and Henry Martyn Lecturer at the Cambridge Theological Federation.

“Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice: A Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Global Perspective provides timely and provocative insight on what it means for individuals and institutions ‘to do justice, and to love kindness’ … in China and worldwide. … Readers who chew on the book's material patiently and charitably, will find themselves richly rewarded.” (Eric H. Wang, Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 37 (2), 2022)“I believe that the book should be congratulated on its success. This work provides insights and resources with which any interlocutor in a dialogue on Christianity, Confucianism or sociopolitical theory would be better equipped. … Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice provides valuable and timely contributions to these dialogues, for which it is to be highly commended.” (G. P. Marcar, International Journal of Public Theology, Vol. 15 (1), 2021)

• Introduction.- PART I  Human Rights and Social Justice: Sources, Theories and Approaches.- PART II   Social Justice, Dignity and Rights Talk in Practice: Chinese Perspective.- Part III:  Social Justice, Dignity and Rights Talk in Practice: Global Perspective.- Concluding Remarks.