Nonviolence in theory and practice /

Nonviolence in theory and practice / edited by Robert L. Holmes.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Holmes, Robert L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1990.
Subjects:
Nonviolence.
Passive resistance.
Pacifism.
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.

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