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:Basingstoke
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 198 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230361294, 0230361293, 9780230361300, 0230361307
oclc:ocn879306027
Dewey Decimal:303.61

Machine generated contents note: 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 Azad -- Islam, 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.

Contents note continued: Nonviolence in the Hind Swaraj -- Further reading -- 6. Pragmatic Nonviolence -- Gene Sharp and pragmatic nonviolence -- Pragmatic nonviolence in practice -- Sharp's four mechanisms of…