An Anthology of Nonviolence - Historical and Contemporary Voices

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Doris Hunter (Editor), Krishna Mallick (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2002
• EAN: 9780313318795
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31879-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)