Titre :	Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Sider, Ronald J., Auteur
Editeur :	Grand Rapids, Michigan [United States] : Brazos Press
Année de publication :	c2015
Importance :	xvi, 191 p.
Format :	23 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-1-58743-366-5
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Index. décimale :	BT 736.6
Note de contenu :	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.

Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried [texte imprimé] / Sider, Ronald J., Auteur . - Grand Rapids, Michigan [United States] : Brazos Press, c2015 . - xvi, 191 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN : 978-1-58743-366-5
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Index. décimale :	BT 736.6
Note de contenu :	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.