Nonviolence in theory and practice / [electronic resource] edited by Robert L. Holmes.

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I. Origins -- Preview -- 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 -- Preview -- 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 -- Preview -- 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 -- Preview -- 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 -- Preview -- 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 -- Preview -- 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.