Nonviolence in theory and practice /
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| Imprint: | Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1990. |
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| Description: | xi, 208 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10038130 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Origins
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- Nonviolence in Eastern philosophy and religion
- The ethics of Jainism / I. C. Sharma
- from The way of Lao Tzu
- On the Bhagavad-Gita / Doris Hunter
- Christianity and Judaism
- Nonviolence in the Talmud / Reuven Kimelman
- How transforming power has been used in the past by early Christians / Lawrence S. Apsey
- The challenge to governmental power
- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau
- II. Three modern philosophers of nonviolence: Tolstoy, Gandi, and King
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- Nonresistance to evil
- Letter to Ernest Howard Cosby / Leo Tolstoy
- From passive resistance to direct action
- On Satyagraha / Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Satyagraha in action / Joan Bondurant
- Militant 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.
- III. Women and nonviolence
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- 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
- IV. Pacifism
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- The pacifist spirit / A.A. Milne
- War is the enemy / A.J. Muste
- The moral equivalent of war / William James
- The sleep of reason brings forth monsters / Robert L. Holmes
- V. Pragmatic Nonviolence
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- Personal perfection or political realism?
- Feelings and perceptions / Thich Nhat Hanh
- Nonviolent action : An active technique of struggle / Gene Sharp
- The technique of non-violent action / Gene Sharp
- Can nonviolence work in the Middle East?
- Living truth: A Jewish perspective / Allan Solomonow
- Nonviolent resistance: A strategy for occupied territories / Mubarak E. Awad
- Nonviolent civilian defense as an alternative to war
- Peace through strength / Liane Ellison Norman
- Pacifism and invasion / Jessie Wallace Hughan
- VI. Recent examples of nonviolence
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- Jungle nonviolence / Stephen Braun
- Nonviolent resistance against the Nazis in Norway and Holland during World War II / Ernest Schwarcz
- The good fight: Badshah Khan, the frontier Gandhi / Timothy Flinders
- Transforming power in the labor movement: Cesar Chavez / Karen Eppler
- The Druze of Golan: A case of nonviolent resistance / R. Scott Kennedy
- The Philippines: The nonviolent revolution that surprised the world / Richard Deats.
