Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Practice for a Post-Secular Society

Cover
Half Title
Book Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
	Methodology
	Chapter outline
	Notes
	Bibliography
1 The success of a division
	The ‘double soul’ of nonviolence
	Nonviolence is two: pragmatic and principled
	The reasons for a success: a clear, à la carte, secular concept
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
2 The other side of success
	Nonviolent action: more than a behaviour, less than an ideal
	Reconciling politics and morality: sharing construction with everybody
	Bringing religion back in
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
3 The nonviolence of Aldo Capitini
	Nonviolence as praxis of liberation and openness
	Beyond pragmatic nonviolence: a different method for the power of all
	Beyond principled nonviolence: the great refusal and the craft of shaping reality
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
4 The ‘reality of all’: protest-to-project, transformative realism and open religion
	Keeping together obstruction and construction: action as protest-to-protect
	Nonviolence between realism and serenity towards omnicracy
	Religion and nonviolence
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
5 Reconstructing nonviolence: ideology for freedom and plurality
	Nonviolence as impure praxis
	The ‘core’ nonviolence: interrelatedness of life, the power of all and an open project towards freedom and plurality
	Redefining principled and pragmatic nonviolence
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
6 Nonviolence in practice: conflict, democracy and religion
	Nonviolence in conflict: learning to rule ourselves
	Nonviolence in democracy: a project for politics, policy and polity
	Nonviolence in religion: towards the Assisi presumption
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index