Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement

Klappentext Nepstad documents the trajectories of various Plowshares movement groups, revealing how activist decisions affect longevity. Zusammenfassung As the nuclear arms race exploded in the 1980s! a group of U.S. religious pacifists known as the Plowshares movement used radical nonviolence to intervene. Nepstad documents the emergence and diffusion of this international movement and explains why some of these Plowshares groups have persisted while others have collapsed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Challenges and trajectories; 2. Historical development of the U.S. Plowshares Movement; 3. Tactical legitimation and the theology of resistance; 4. Sustaining commitment; 5. Death of a charismatic leader; 6. Intermittent resistance: the German, Dutch, and Australian Plowshares Movements; 7. Internal tensions and implosion: the Swedish Plowshares Movement; 8. Witnessing or winning? The British Plowshares Movement; 9. From failed attempts to persistent resistance: understanding divergent movement trajectories.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Sharon Erickson (University of Southern Maine) Nepstad
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521717670
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71767-0
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subject: Non-fiction book