TY - BOOK AU - Sudhir Chandra, TI - Violence and non-violence across time: history, religion and culture SN - 9780429466205 AV - DS33 U1 - 950 23 PY - 2018///] CY - London PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - World politics KW - Popular culture KW - Study and teaching KW - Culture KW - Philosophy KW - Religion KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Social policy KW - HISTORY / Asia / General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Study skills KW - Asia KW - South Asia KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1835762 ER -