Human rights are widely perceived as secular and universalistic, in tension with the faith-based particularism of many religions. In Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations, Amélie Barras explores this tension as it arises in religious NGOs' advocacy efforts at the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. Drawing on ethnographic, textual, and archival research, Barras highlights challenges that RNGO staff encounter as religious adherents operating in the diplomatic and pluralistic context of the HRC. Many of her interlocutors are Catholic sisters and priests, posted to Geneva by their religious orders after years of frontline humanitarian work in the Global South. They convey discombobulation at being thrust into the sedate and well-ordered environment of the HRC, far from those victims of rights abuses they endeavor to serve. Some express doubts about what they can accomplish in Geneva, with one interviewee noting that “human rights work can be tedious and often appears to be leading nowhere” (129). RNGOs granted “consultative” status may participate in limited fashion in HRC proceedings and “lobby” the forty-seven country delegations that are its real decision-makers. In these circumstances, it is not clear what constitutes success. In a periodic review of one country's huma