This book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern Western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational, and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and linked to the particularities of Christian morality, the forces of capitalism dependent upon exploitation of minorities, and specific conceptions of individualism that surfaced with the Reformation in the 16th century and rapidly developed during the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries....