Globalizing Family Values

Globalizing Family Values

The Christian Right in International Politics

Doris Buss and Didi Herman
Table of Contents

$20.00 Paper
ISBN: 0-8166-4208-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4208-3

$60.00 Cloth
ISBN: 0-8166-4207-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4207-6

A timely exposé of the efforts of the religious right to influence global policy.

With little fanfare and profound effect, "family values" have gone global, and the influence of the Christian Right is increasingly felt internationally. This is the first comprehensive study of the Christian Right's global reach and its impact on international law and politics.

Doris Buss and Didi Herman explore tensions, contradictions, victories, and defeats for the Christian Right's global project, particularly in the United Nations. The authors consult Christian Right materials, from pamphlets to novels; conduct interviews with people in the movement; and provide a firsthand account of the World Congress of Families II in 1999, a key event in formulating Christian Right global policy and strategy.

The result is a detailed look at a new global player—its campaigns against women's rights, population policy, and gay and lesbian rights; its efforts to build an alliance of orthodox faiths with non-Christians; and the tensions and strains as it seeks to negotiate a role for conservative Christianity in a changing global order.

“Revealing descriptions of these new forms of religious activism and coalition building. They also devote welcome attention to the fertile political spaces that are separate from or reconstitutive of the nation-state.” —Religious Studies Review

“An illuminating scholarly study.” —Future Survey

“This book is a valuable guide. Buss and Herman trace seven years of the thrusts and counter thrusts by the Christian Right UN and its international opponents. A measure of how well the authors tell their story is that many readers upon finishing the work will no doubt hasten to the Internet sites of the key organizations discussed by them to monitor their evolving strategy.” —Population and Development Review

Doris Buss is assistant professor of law at Carleton University in Ottawa. Didi Herman is professor of law at Keele University in the United Kingdom.

232 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Divinity, Data, Destruction: Theological Foundation to Christian Right International Activism
2. Constructing the Global: The United Nations in Protestant Thought and Prophecy
3. Nation, Church, Family: The Christian Right Global Mission
4. The Death Culture Goes Global: International Population Policy and Christian Right Politics in Action
5. In Defense of the Natural Family: Doctrine, Disputes, and Devotion at the World Congress of Families II Conference
6. The Gender Agenda: Women’s Rights, Radical Feminism, and Homosexuality

Conclusion
Notes
References
Index



Globalizing Family Values *The Christian Right in International Politics* Doris Buss and Didi Herman Table of Contents		$20.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4208-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4208-3 $60.00 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4207-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4207-6
A timely exposé of the efforts of the religious right to influence global policy. With little fanfare and profound effect, "family values" have gone global, and the influence of the Christian Right is increasingly felt internationally. This is the first comprehensive study of the Christian Right's global reach and its impact on international law and politics. Doris Buss and Didi Herman explore tensions, contradictions, victories, and defeats for the Christian Right's global project, particularly in the United Nations. The authors consult Christian Right materials, from pamphlets to novels; conduct interviews with people in the movement; and provide a firsthand account of the World Congress of Families II in 1999, a key event in formulating Christian Right global policy and strategy. The result is a detailed look at a new global player—its campaigns against women's rights, population policy, and gay and lesbian rights; its efforts to build an alliance of orthodox faiths with non-Christians; and the tensions and strains as it seeks to negotiate a role for conservative Christianity in a changing global order. “Revealing descriptions of these new forms of religious activism and coalition building. They also devote welcome attention to the fertile political spaces that are separate from or reconstitutive of the nation-state.” —Religious Studies Review “An illuminating scholarly study.” —Future Survey “This book is a valuable guide. Buss and Herman trace seven years of the thrusts and counter thrusts by the Christian Right UN and its international opponents. A measure of how well the authors tell their story is that many readers upon finishing the work will no doubt hasten to the Internet sites of the key organizations discussed by them to monitor their evolving strategy.” —Population and Development Review Doris Buss is assistant professor of law at Carleton University in Ottawa. Didi Herman is professor of law at Keele University in the United Kingdom. 232 pages \| 5 7/8 x 9 \| 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Divinity, Data, Destruction: Theological Foundation to Christian Right International Activism 2. Constructing the Global: The United Nations in Protestant Thought and Prophecy 3. Nation, Church, Family: The Christian Right Global Mission 4. The Death Culture Goes Global: International Population Policy and Christian Right Politics in Action 5. In Defense of the Natural Family: Doctrine, Disputes, and Devotion at the World Congress of Families II Conference 6. The Gender Agenda: Women’s Rights, Radical Feminism, and Homosexuality Conclusion Notes References Index