The Catholic Church and Transnational Moral Norms in the Philippines: Contraception, Human Trafficking, and Religion [Hardcover]

1.Cain, Where Is Your Brother?

2. Norm Thickening and the Role of Religion

3. How the Catholic Church Thickens Transnational Moral Norms

4. Doctrinal Sources of the Catholic Churchs Approach to Contraception

5. Thickening Contraception Norms at the Intergovernmental Level

6. Thickening Contraception Norms in the Philippines

7. The Development of Thin Norms against Human Trafficking

8. How the Church Thickens Transnational Anti-Trafficking Norms

9. Thickening Anti-Trafficking Norms in the Philippines

10. Catholic Norm Thickening and the Power of Particular Morality

Chow explores the Roman Catholic Churchs engagement with transnational human rights norms and how its understandings of Catholic identity and doctrine have profoundly shaped the politics surrounding contraception and human trafficking in the Philippines.

Jonathan T. Chow is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA. His research focuses on regional security in East and Southeast Asia and the transnational politics of religion and moral norms.

Jonathan T. Chow explores the Roman Catholic Churchs engagement with transnational human rights norms and how its understandings of Catholic identity and doctrine have profoundly shaped the politics surrounding contraception and human trafficking in the Philippines.

In the global politics of morality, the Catholic Church is one of the worlds foremost practitioners, shaping not only the language of transnational moral norms but also how they are implemented at the domestic level. Through norm thickeningconnecting transnational norms to deeply held local identities and religious teachings and institutionalizing those connections in policies, practices, and organizalÃ3