1st Edition
Violence and Non-Violence across Time History, Religion and Culture
List of Figures. Contributors. Preface 1. Violence and Non-Violence Across Time: An Abiding Puzzle Sudhir Chandra 2. The Negation of Violence in the Vedic Sacrifice Charles Malamoud 3. Is Violence Intrinsic to Religious Confrontation? The Case of Judeo-Christian Controversy, 2nd–17th Century Philippe Bobichon 4. What Inspires Non-Violence and Violence in Islam? Some Religious and Historical Factors Suleiman A. Mourad 5. Buddhism and ‘Violence’: Reading the Medieval War Chronicle The Tales of Heike Rajyashree Pandey 6. Between Military Strength and Non-Violence: Experience and Symbolic Use of Elephants in European Cultures José E. Burucúa and Nicolás Kwiatkowski 7. Violence in the Philosophy of Saint-Simon Pierre Musso 8. Non-Violence, Identity, Sympathy: A Meditation Alok Bhalla 9. Some Unfashionable Observations on Non-Violence Marc Chopplet 10. Being the Object of Others: Social Distancing and Non-Violence: The Conditionalities of Dalits and Slums Martin Fuchs 11. Representations of Violence and Non-Violence in Palestinian Society Abaher El Sakka 12. War against Disease without Violence to Clinical Trial Participants? Roger Jeffery 13. Being Truthful to ‘Reality’: Grounds of Non-Violence in Ascetic and Mystical Traditions Cristina Ciucu
Biography
Sudhir Chandra is a historian based in Delhi, India. He has been associated with several universities and centres of advanced learning, such as the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies; Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh; Banaras Hindu University; Aligarh Muslim University; Jamia Millia Islamia; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; Melbourne University; Bellagio Study and Conference Center; University of Chicago; Cornell University; Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Indian Council of Historical Research; and Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi. Among his publications are Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility (2017), The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (2014/1992) and Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights (1998). His works seek to understand the kind of social consciousness that developed in India under the colonial impact and the idea of non-violence.
