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Violence and Non-Violence Across Time : History, Religion and Culture by Sudhir Chandra; Charles Malamoud; Philippe Bobichon; Suleiman Ali Mourad; Rajyashree Pandey; José Emilio Burucúa; Nicolás Kwiatkowski; Pierre Musso; Alok Bhalla; Marc Chopplet; Martin Fuchs (sociologue).); Abaher el Sakka; Roger Jeffery; Cristina Ciucu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book probes the complex interweaving, across time and cultures, of violence and non-violence from the perspective of the present. One of the first of its kind, it offers a comprehensive examination of the interpenetration of violence and non-violence as much in human nature as in human institutions with reference to different continents, cultures and religions over centuries. It points to the present paradox that even as violence of unprecedented lethality threatens the very survival of humankind, non-violence increasingly appears as an unlikely feasible alternative. The essays presented here cover a wide cultural–temporal spectrum — from Vedic sacrifice, early Jewish–Christian polemics, the Crusades, and medieval Japan to contemporary times. They explore aspects of the violence–non-violence dialectic in a coherent frame of analysis across themes such as war, jihad, death, salvation, religious and philosophical traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, mysticism, monism, and Neoplatonism, texts such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and Quran, as well as issues faced by Dalits and ethical imperatives for clinical trials, among others. Offering thematic widt

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Author

Sudhir Chandra; Charles Malamoud; Philippe Bobichon; Suleiman Ali Mourad; Rajyashree Pandey; José Emilio Burucúa; Nicolás Kwiatkowski; Pierre Musso; Alok Bhalla; Marc Chopplet; Martin Fuchs (sociologue).); Abaher el Sakka; Roger Jeffery; Cristina Ciucu

Publisher

Routledge India

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429880933

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology