Introduction to nonviolence

by Jahanbegloo, Ramin

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Full title :Introduction to nonviolence / Ramin Jahanbegloo.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781137200693, 1137200693, 1137314265, 9781137314260
oclc:ocn915155172
LC Classification:HM1281
Dewey Decimal:303.6/1

Cover; Contents; List of Profiles; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What is nonviolence?; Further reading; 1 Nonviolence in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism; Nonviolence in Hinduism; Nonviolence in Jainism; Nonviolence in Buddhism; Further reading; 2 Christianity and Nonviolence; The roots of nonviolence in Jesus Christ; Nonviolence in the Epistles of St Paul; Franciscan nonviolence; Christian nonviolence in the North American context; A new tradition: nonviolence in the work of Thomas Merton; Further reading; 3 Islam and Nonviolence; The roots of nonviolence in the Qur'an.

Nonviolence in the contemporary Islamic context: the case of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Maulana Abul Kalam AzadIslam, nonviolence and the state; Further reading; 4 Philosophical Foundations of Nonviolence; Socratic nonviolence; The transcendentalist nonviolence of H.D. Thoreau; Leo Tolstoy and nonviolence; Further reading; 5 Gandhi and Nonviolence; Gandhi's conception of nonviolence; Nonviolence in the Hind Swaraj; Further reading; 6 Pragmatic Nonviolence; Gene Sharp and pragmatic nonviolence; Pragmatic nonviolence in practice; Sharp's four mechanisms of change.

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