Chapter 6. Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interest of the Child

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Reimagining Global Justice 1
4. Part I. The Challenge of Universality and Cultural/Religious Legitimacy
5. Chapter 1. Islamic Ambivalence to Political Violence: Islamic Law and International Terrorism 35
6. Chapter 2. Problems of Universal Cultural Legitimacy for Human Rights 65
7. Chapter 3. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 97
8. Part II. Prospects of Mediation for the Paradox of Universality and State Self-Regulation
9. Chapter 4. State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws 121
10. Chapter 5. Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights 140
11. Chapter 6. Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interest of the Child 161
12. Chapter 7. Toward an Islamic Hermeneutics for Human Rights 182
13. Part III. Regional and Global Perspectives
14. Chapter 8. Competing Claims to Religious Freedom and Communal Self-Determination in Africa 199
15. Chapter 9. Globalization and Jurisprudence: An Islamic Perspective 223
16. Chapter 10. The Politics of Religion and the Morality of Globalization 247
17. Chapter 11. Global Citizenship and Human Rights: From Muslims in Europe to European Muslims 272
18. Notes 315
19. Bibliography 345
20. Index 369
21. Acknowledgments 375