“Johannes Morsink is one of the rare scholars who combines astonishing erudition with an ability to focus on our biggest and most pressing contemporary problems. He has succeeded in creating a universal narrative of global human rights accessible to believers and non-believers alike. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion is an important, magisterial, timely and highly relevant work for both theorists and practitioners of global politics.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America Foundation
"Morsink has designed and executed an exceptionally valuable study. It is one in which, through the invention of human
rights, humanity has outgrown both state and sect as the scope of morality in order to achieve a more comprehensively inclusive set of commitments."—Samuel Moyn, Yale University, in Journal of Church and State
“This is a very important contribution to the literature on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to human rights studies more generally.”—William A. Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University–London, author of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: travaux préparatoires
“Well written, well argued, and hopeful. It certainly fills a gap, and does it in an interesting way.”—Lorenzo Zucca, Professor of Law and Philosophy, King’s College London, author of A Secular Europe: Law and Religion in the European Constitutional Landscape