Nonviolent action :
Sider, Ronald J.
Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / Ronald J. Sider. - Grand Rapids, MI.: Brazos Press, c2015. - xvi, 191 p ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success -- Early developments -- Gandhi: defeating the British Empire -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism -- Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare -- Wheelchairs versus tanks -- Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire -- Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators -- The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists -- Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement -- "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator -- Nonviolence in the Arab Spring -- Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams -- Part IV. The time to act -- Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history -- The moral equivalent of war.
A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice.
9781587433665 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1587433664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014040103
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
BT736.6 / .S53 2015
241/.697
Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / Ronald J. Sider. - Grand Rapids, MI.: Brazos Press, c2015. - xvi, 191 p ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success -- Early developments -- Gandhi: defeating the British Empire -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism -- Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare -- Wheelchairs versus tanks -- Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire -- Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators -- The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists -- Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement -- "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator -- Nonviolence in the Arab Spring -- Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams -- Part IV. The time to act -- Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history -- The moral equivalent of war.
A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice.
9781587433665 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1587433664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014040103
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
BT736.6 / .S53 2015
241/.697