| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 407 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405). |
| Contents |
Origins. Nonviolence in Eastern philosophy and religion -- The ethics of Jainism / I. C. Sharma -- from The way of Lao Tzu -- From the Dhammapada -- On the Bhagavad-Gita / Doris Hunter -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- Nonviolence in the Talmud / Reuven Kimelman -- How transforming power has been used in the past by early Christians / Lawrence S. Apsey -- Saint Maximus the Confessor on nonviolence / Thomas Merton -- Islam, nonviolence, and global transformation / Razi Ahmad -- Secular origins : challenges to injustice and government power -- From The Crito / Plato -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Three modern philosophers of nonviolence: Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King. Nonresistance to evil -- Letter to Ernest Howard Cosby / Leo Tolstoy -- From passive resistance to direct action -- Satyagraha : congress report on the Punjab disorders / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Satyagraha in action / Joan Bondurant -- Active nonviolence -- How transforming power was used in modern times: against race prejudice in America / Lawrence S. Apsey -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Women and nonviolence. The pioneers -- The women of the bible and Greece / David Daube -- Nonviolence and women / Margaret Hope Bacon -- Women and militant nonviolence in the nuclear age -- On revolution and equilibrium / Barbara Deming -- Molly Rush and the plowshares eight / Liane Ellison Norman -- Contemporary feminism and nonviolence -- Maternal nonviolence : a truth in the making / Sara Ruddick -- Pacifism. The moral equivalent of war / William James -- The pacifist spirit / A.A. Milne -- Impossible pacifism : Jews, the Holocaust, and nonviolence / Evelyn Wilcock -- From The warriors : reflections on men in battle / J. Glenn Gray -- Peace through strength / Liane Ellison Norman -- Pacifism and invasion / Jessie Wallace Hughan -- War, power and nonviolence / Robert L. Holmes -- |
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The practice of nonviolence. Personal perfection -- Feelings and perceptions / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Learning true love / Sister Chân Không -- Pacifism as a way of life / Richard Taylor -- A Muslim views the promise of nonviolence / Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id -- Nonviolence as a political tool -- Nonviolent action : An active technique of struggle / Gene Sharp -- Why civil resistance works / Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth -- Liberation without war : is there a nonviolent way to overthrow dictators and achieve democracy? / Jack DuVall -- Principled political and labor nonviolence -- Cesar Chavez and principled nonviolent strategy / José-Antonio Orosco -- Satyagraha in Tibet / Samdhong Losang Tenzin -- Loving one's enemies / Barry L. Gan -- Nonviolence, nature, and animal rights -- Reverence for life ? Albert Schweitzer -- Jaina cosmology and Gaia theory / Christopher Key Chapple -- Ahimsa / Arundhati Roy -- The Indian way / Richard Deats -- Nonviolence and animal rights / Gary L. Farncione -- Examples of nonviolence. Nonviolence in Asia -- The peacemaker of the Pashtun past / Karl E. Meyer -- The Philippines : the nonviolent revolution that surprised the world / Richard Deats -- Jungle nonviolence / Stephen Braun -- Nonviolence in Africa -- Nonviolence plays a role in ending apartheid in South Africa / The Center for the Study of Conflict -- Nonviolence in the West -- Nonviolent resistance against the Nazis in Norway and Holland during World War II / Ernest Schwarcz -- Lithuania's nonviolent struggle / Richard Deats -- Transforming power in the labor movement : Cesar Chavez / Karen Eppler -- Nonviolence in the Middle East -- The Druze of Golan : a case of nonviolent resistance / R. Scott Kennedy -- Living truth : a Jewish perspective / Allan Solomonow -- Nonviolent resistance : a strategy for the occupied territories / Mubarak E. Awad -- Nonviolence in the Israeli women's peace movement / Gila Svirsky -- Nonviolence : ordinary Palestinians fight for their freedom / Lucy Nusseibeh. |
| Subject |
Nonviolence.
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Passive resistance.
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Pacifism.
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| Added Author |
Holmes, Robert L.
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Gan, Barry L., 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781577667605 |
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1577667603 |
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