Violence and Non-Violence Across Time

History, Religion and Culture
Herausgeber: Chandra, Sudhir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. The essays cover a wide cultural-temporal spectrum - from Vedic sacrifice, early Jewish-Christian polemics, the Crusades, and medieval Japan to contemporary times. They explore themes such as war, jihad, death, salvation, religious and philosophical traditions, texts, and ethical imperatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138203297
• ISBN-10: 1138203297
• Artikelnr.: 53215112

Autorenporträt

Sudhir Chandra is a historian based in Delhi, India. He has been associated with several universities and centres of advanced learning, such as the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies; Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh; Banaras Hindu University; Aligarh Muslim University; Jamia Millia Islamia; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; Melbourne University; Bellagio Study and Conference Center; University of Chicago; Cornell University; Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Indian Council of Historical Research; and Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi. Among his publications are Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility (2017), The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (2014/1992) and Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights (1998). His works seek to understand the kind of social consciousness that developed in India under the colonial impact and the idea of non-violence.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Cultures 7. 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