An account of the tradition of literature dealing with non-violence in the United States, from the 17th to the 20th century. Beginning with Quakers of the 1680s, through the Sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, various novelists and poets, including Hawthorne and Whitman, are discussed.

Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

Literature & Fiction

True, Michael

History & Criticism

Syracuse University Press

An account of the tradition of literature dealing with non-violence in the United States, from the 17th to the 20th century. Beginning with Quakers of the 1680s, through the Sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, various novelists and poets, including Hawthorne and Whitman, are discussed.

Homemade Social Justice tells how to communicate to children ideas about promoting justice and peace in tomorrow's world. The author takes family life seriously, but not solemnly. He recognizes that family relationships establish lifelong patterns by which people face the world, resolve conflicts, live their lives. He tells how parents can lead their children to be the peacemakers the world so desperately needs.

Homemade social justice: Teaching peace and justice in the home

Medical Books

Psychology

Fides/Claretian

Ordinary People: Family Life and Global Values

Ordinary People: Family Life and Global Values

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Orbis Books

In these lively, readable portraits, author Michael True provides unique insights into the lives and writings of 30 individuals and communities devoted to nonviolent social change. In doing so, he points to heroes and heroines, form the 18th century to the present, who worked to build just, peaceful societies in this country and abroad. These include groups such as Catholic workers in the US, students in China, missionaries in Central America, and the Greenham Common women in England, as well as individuals: Michael Harrington, Joan Baez, Rosa Parks, Thomas Merton, Oscar Romero, and others. Their resistance to injustice offers inspiration to all.

To Construct Peace: Thirty More Justice Seekers, Peace Makers

Religion & Spirituality

Twenty Third Pubns

"This collection of portraits focuses on the lives and communities of men and women central to non-violent movements for social change from the 18th century to the present. It includes internationally known figures such as Thomas Paine, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, as well as abolitionists, feminists, labor organizers, war resisters, and Catholic workers, known for their courage, intelligence, imagination, resourcefulness, and deep commitment to the common good. Their country is the world; their compatriots are all humankind."

People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities

History

Asia

Rawat

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Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

Homemade social justice: Teaching peace and justice in the home

Ordinary People: Family Life and Global Values

To Construct Peace: Thirty More Justice Seekers, Peace Makers

People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities