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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
ISBN10: 0367479230, ISBN13: 9780367479237, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2020-01-14, New Delhi] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 0367479230, ISBN13: 9780367479237, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2020-01-14, New Delhi] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2020]
London Routledge India 2020 Paperback New. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Includes: illustrations, black & white. Intended for college/higher education audience.
Paperback / softback. New. 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. It points to the present paradox that even as violence of unprecedented lethality threatens the very survival of humankind, non-violence increasingly appears as an unlikely feasible alternative. The essays presented here cover a wide cultural-temporal spectrum - from Vedic sacrifice, early Jewish-Christian polemics, the Crusades, and medieval Japan to contemporary times. They explore aspects of the violence-non-violence dialectic in a coherent frame of analysis across themes such as war, jihad, death, salvation, religious and philosophical traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, mysticism, monism, and Neoplatonism, texts such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and Quran, as well as issues faced by Dalits and ethical imperatives for clinical trials, among others. Offering thematic width and analytical depth to the treatment of the subject, the contributors bring their disciplinary expertise and cultural insights, ranging from the historical to sociological, theological, philosophical and metaphysical, as well as their sensitive erudition t ...
ISBN10: 0367479230, ISBN13: 9780367479237, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2020]
London Routledge India 2020 Paperback New. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Includes: illustrations, black & white. Intended for college/higher education audience.
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London Routledge India 2020 Paperback New. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Includes: illustrations, black & white. Intended for college/higher education audience.
Routledge 2020 paperback Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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