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Violence and non-violence across time : history, religion and culture / edited by Sudhir Chandra.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018]Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780429466205
  • 042946620X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 950 23
LOC classification:
  • DS33
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Violence and non-violence across time: an abiding puzzle; 2 The negation of violence in the Vedic sacrifice; 3 Is violence intrinsic to religious confrontation?: the case of Judeo-Christian controversy, second to seventeenth centuries; 4 What inspires non-violence and violence in Islam?: some religious and historical factors; 5 Buddhism and 'violence': reading the medieval war chronicle The Tales of Heike
6 Between military strength and non-violence: experience and symbolic use of elephants in European cultures7 Violence in the philosophy of Saint-Simon; 8 Non-violence, identity, sympathy: a meditation; 9 Some unfashionable observations on non-violence; 10 Being the object of others: social distancing and non-violence: the conditionalities of Dalits and slums; 11 Representations of violence and non-violence in Palestinian society; 12 War against disease without violence to clinical trial participants?; 13 Being truthful to 'reality': grounds of non-violence in ascetic and mystical traditions
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Violence and non-violence across time: an abiding puzzle; 2 The negation of violence in the Vedic sacrifice; 3 Is violence intrinsic to religious confrontation?: the case of Judeo-Christian controversy, second to seventeenth centuries; 4 What inspires non-violence and violence in Islam?: some religious and historical factors; 5 Buddhism and 'violence': reading the medieval war chronicle The Tales of Heike

6 Between military strength and non-violence: experience and symbolic use of elephants in European cultures7 Violence in the philosophy of Saint-Simon; 8 Non-violence, identity, sympathy: a meditation; 9 Some unfashionable observations on non-violence; 10 Being the object of others: social distancing and non-violence: the conditionalities of Dalits and slums; 11 Representations of violence and non-violence in Palestinian society; 12 War against disease without violence to clinical trial participants?; 13 Being truthful to 'reality': grounds of non-violence in ascetic and mystical traditions

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