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Austin Dacey

Austin Dacey is a contributing editor at Religion Dispatches and the author of The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights. He is currently a senior consultant to the Youth Free Expression Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship.

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Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

After Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular referendum, the Vatican secretary of state did not make history by calling the event a…
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How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

No, we can’t simply thank anti-communist, anti-Enlightenment Catholics for the elevation of human rights language.
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Would We Have No Commitment to Equality Without Christianity?

Readers of my last post, and readers of English more generally, could be forgiven for thinking that in his essay, “ Christian human rights: An introduction,” and in his forthcoming book, Christian…
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