1st Edition

The Catholic Church and Transnational Moral Norms in the Philippines Contraception, Human Trafficking, and Religion

By Jonathan T. Chow Copyright 2025
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Jonathan T. Chow explores the Roman Catholic Church’s 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 world’s foremost practitioners, shaping not only the... Read more

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 Church’s 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

Biography

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.