Subverting Hatred : The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions

by Smith-Christopher, Daniel L.

• ISBN13: 9781570753237
• ISBN10: 1570753237
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Designed for group or personal study, Subverting Hatred describes the teachings and resources on nonviolence within nine different religious traditions. Representatives of these traditions describe not only the significant contributions to nonviolence of that tradition, but also reflect on how that particular tradition has fallen short in putting these ideals into practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
Virginia Straus
Foreword	7	(2)
Daisaku Ikeda
Introduction	9	(4)
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Jainism and Nonviolence	13	(12)
Christopher Key Chapple
The Peace Wheel: Nonviolent Activism in the Buddhist Tradition	25	(24)
Christopher S. Queen
Subverting Hatred: Peace and Nonviolence in Confucianism and Daoism	49	(18)
Tam Wai Lun
Ahimsa and the Unity of All Things: A Hindu View of Nonviolence	67	(18)
Sunanda Y. Shastri
Yajneshwar S. Shastri
Indigenous Traditions of Peace: An Interview with Lawrence Hart, Cheyenne Peace Chief	85	(10)
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Nonviolence in Islam: The Alternative Community Tradition	95	(20)
Rabia Terri Harris
``Let your love for me vanquish your hatred for him'': Nonviolence and Modern Judaism	115	(26)
Jeremy Milgrom
Political Atheism and Radical Faith: The Challenge of Christian Nonviolence in the Third Millennium	141	(26)
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Epilogue Reflections on Nonviolence and Religion	167
Donald K. Swearer