TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sider,Ronald J.
TI  - Nonviolent action: what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried 
SN  - 9781587433665 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BT736.6 .S53 2015
U1  - 241/.697 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Grand Rapids, MI.
PB  - Brazos Press
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -