An Anthology of Nonviolence

Historical and Contemporary Voices
Herausgeber: Hunter, Doris; Mallick, Krishna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the basis for choosing a nonviolent response to conflict and violence? By presenting and analyzing some of the most significant answers that have been given to this question throughout history, this anthology of writings from both Western and nonwestern traditions proposes principled and strategic nonviolence as a realistic alternative. It includes a selection of historical sources on nonviolence-ranging from the Bhagavad-Gita to the Bible-as well as a wide range of writings by authors such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela, who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of nonviolence. Besides tracing the historical development of the concept, this volume also suggests ways of applying nonviolence to our everyday lives in the first decade of the 21st century, which the United Nations General Assembly has declared to be the Decade for Education for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780313318795
• ISBN-10: 0313318794
• Artikelnr.: 21137626

Autorenporträt

KRISHNA MALLICK is is Associate Professor, Chairperson of the Philosophy Department, and Coordinator of the Peace Institute at Salem State College./e She has coedited two books and published several scholarly articles and book chapters. ter /f Doris /r ed./b DORIS HUNTER is a Unitarian Universalist Minister in the Boston area./e She has taught philosophy and religion at various institutions and has written extensively on the subjects of violence and nonviolence.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Historical Sources of Nonviolence Bhagavad-Gita Crito
The Sermon on the Mount A Jain Prayer Peace Seeds Historical Voices of
Nonviolence Civil Disobedience Ahimsa or The Way of Nonviolence Selections
from Gandhi's Autobiography Letter from Birmingham Jail Contemporary Voices
of Nonviolence The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The Almond Tree in Your Front
Yard Selections from Long Walk to Freedom Contemporary Issues and Women's
Voices of Nonviolence Speciesism Today Selections from: Race Matters Draft
of a Global Program It Is All About Human/Civil Rights Taking Empirical
Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective Let Us Survive:
Women, Ecology, and Develoment Application of Nonviolence The Importance of
Strategic Planning in Nonviolent Struggle The Eight Essential Steps to
Conflict Resolution The Interfaith Movement: The Present Reality The 1989
Democratic Uprising in China: A Nonviolent Perspective The Global Spread of
Active Nonviolence Gandhian Satyagraha and the Chipko Movement Silence in
the Brandenburg Gate Selected Bibliography Index