Religion and Nonviolence in American History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4896943
AutoresJoseph Kip Kosek (George Washington University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen6
Número8
Páginas402-413
Fecha de publicación2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8171.2012.00365.x
OpenAlexW2144738609
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas44

Nonviolence has long been an important aspect of American religion. Understanding the tradition of religious nonviolence helps illuminate such subjects as the growth and limits of state power, the character of political dissent, and the significance of race in the nation's history. In the colonial period, Quakers tried to square the nonviolent ideal with the vagaries of pluralism and cultural conflict. Nineteenth-century nonresistants led by William Lloyd Garrison tied the problem of violence to the injustice of slavery. The connections between peace and justice were revitalized in the decades after the First World War, when Mohandas Gandhi's efforts in India suggested the viability of nonviolent direct action as a practical strategy for social change. That modern form of nonviolence achieved great success in the civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King, Jr. and other African American innovators used it to defeat white supremacy. Religious nonviolence was also at the center of antinuclear protests and the campaign to end the Vietnam War. More recently, nonviolence has appeared in the prolife movement and the opposition to United States military action in Afghanistan and Iraq

Civil disobedience · Dissent · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vietnam War · White supremacy · American Political and Social Dynamics · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Religious studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies