Douglas Allen argues that Gandhi offers to us the most profound and influential theory, philosophy, and engaged practices of ahimsa or nonviolence. Embracing Gandhi's insightful critiques of modernity, the book sees his approach as a creative and challenging catalyst to rethink our positions today. We live in a post-9/11 world that is defined by widespread physical, psychological, economic, political, cultural, religious, technological, and environmental violence and that is increasingly unsustainable. The author's central claim is Gandhi, when selectively appropriated and creatively reformulated and applied, is essential for formulating new positions that are more nonviolent and more sustainable. These provide resources and hope for dealing with our contemporary crises. The author analyzes what a Gandhi-informed, valuable but humanly limited swaraj technology looks like and what a Gandhi-informed, more egalitarian, interconnected, bottom-up, decentralized world of globalization looks like. The book focuses on key themes in Gandhi's thought, such as violence and nonviolence, Absolute Truth and relative truth, ethical and spiritual living. Challenging us to consider nonviolent, moral, and truthful transformative alternatives today, the author moves through essays on Gandhi in the age of technology; Gandhi after 9/11 and 26/11 terrorism; Gandhi's controversial views on the Bhagavad-Gita and Hind Swaraj; Gandhi and Vedanta; Gandhi on socialism; Gandhi and marginality, caste, class, race, and oppressed others.
In January 1931, the British viceroy, Lord Irwin, released Gandhi and negotiated a remarkable truce, the so-called Gandhi~Irwin Pact. Resistance was called off and political prisoners were released. Abdul Ghaffar Khan was released from ...
This book is a series of Thomas Merton's most important writings on peace, racial issues and non-violence.
Love and Nonresistance: God's Plan for the Church
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本书讨论的是人类暴力减少的历史.平克在本书中展示了上百幅图表和地图,佐以大量的数据资料,量化暴力减少的趋势:部落间战事的死亡率比20世纪的战争和大屠杀要高出9倍 ...
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The authors of the book of Judges recount , in the narrative of Deborah and Barak's victories over the Canaanites of the North ( Judg 4 : 1-5 : 31 ) , the battle between Israel and King Jabin of Hazor . 32 In chapter 4 two heroic women ...
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Not a remote system used only by saints, albeit deeply rooted in the Ghandian-Kingian tradition, this handbook offers specific strategies for building peace in families, schools, communities, and commerce.
This is a book that explores how politics may overly shape current Christian thinking on this subject.