This collection examines the concept of human rights in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. The contributors analyze cognitive contexts that produce different meanings of rights, identify spaces of intercultural crossings where differences can coexist, and offer narratives and metaphors to help mediate between distinct cultures.

Edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki - Contributions by Shazia Ahmad; Elizabeth Blake; Marcella Ferri; Hisako Matsuo; Jeffrey A. Redding; Mario Ricca; Michal Jan Rozbicki; Rachel Santon; Tommaso Sbriccoli; Melisa Vasquez and Anders E. Walker

Part I: Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Grammar of Interculturality, Michal Jan Rozbicki
Chapter 2: Human Rights against Human Rights: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Interpretative Discrepancies, and Intercultural Transpositions, Mario Ricca
Part II: Rights and Religion
Chapter 3: Transgender Rights in Pakistan?: Global, Colonial, and Islamic Perspectives, Jeffrey A. Redding
Chapter 4: The Off-Centered Hub of Secularism: Religion Inside Human Rights Projections and Quotidian Life, Melisa Vazquez
Chapter 5: Migration' as a Metaphor for Religious Conversion: a Reinterpretation of Freedom of Conscience and Belief in Colonial India and Pakistan, Shazia Ahmad
Part III: Rights and Migration
Chapter 6: Protestant Work Ethic Revisited: The Ephemeral Nature of Commitment to Human Rights, Hisako Matsuo and Rachel Santon
Chapter 7: Politics, Religion and Debt: Translating Lives into Normative Frameworks for Asylum Seekers in Italy, Tommaso Sbriccoli
Chapter 8: The Role of Human Rights Frameworks in Refugee Host State Integration, Rachel Santon
Part IV: Rights and Cultural Difference
Chapter 9: Defending Liberty from Tyranny in Dostoevsky's Siberia: The Impact of Captivity on an Intercultural Consensus Regarding Human Rights, Elizabeth Blake
Chapter 10: The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration as a Case of Human Rights Translation, Marcella Ferri
Chapter 11: The Color Curtain: Richard Wright on Race, Rights and Western Values, Anders Walker