Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice

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.

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,

"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)