Supramarkt

Editor(s): Cecilia Wee, Janicke Schoenenbach, and Olaf Arndt

Irene Publishing, Sparsnas Sweden, 2015, pp. 511

'SUPRAMARKET tries to provide those who want to see themselves as "disobedient consumers" with a "toolkit" with which one can crack the "fatal forces" of the "capitalocene" - the age in which capital determines everything - and reclaim their energy reserves in our collective favour.' (Olaf Arndt, p. 27)

Ricordando Pinna. Le lettere a Capitini”, 1st, 2nd and 3rd part

Editor(s): Centro Studi Sereno Regis

Centro Studi Sereno Regis, Torino, 2016

This is a series of letters that Pietro Pinna exchanged with Aldo Capitini, both key protagonists of the nonviolence movement in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War. Their relationship proved to be fruitful for the elaboration of a theory on nonviolence and related techniques. The first set of letters from Pinna to Capitini depicts Pinna's thoughts and feelings following his decision to refuse military service and challenge the Italian government. The second set describes the supporting network that was formed around Pinna when he was in prison, awaiting his trial. This network ensured Pinna's case resonated with the public. The third set of letters starts from his release from prison and reveal the process of creating the Nonviolent Movement for Peace with Capitini.

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Nonviolence and Islamic Imperatives

Author(s): Chaiwat Satha-Anand

Irene Publishing, Sparsnäs, Sweden, 2015, pp. 180

The author surveys the history of Islamic nonviolent movements and their contemporary role, including contextual analysisof sacred texts and examples of Islamic nonviolent action today, challenging false perceptions of violence in Islam. 

Changing Church-State Relations in Contemporary China: The case of Wenzhou Diocese

Author(s): Chan Shun-hing

In: International Sociology, Vol 31, No 4, 2016, pp. 489-507

The article focuses on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Chinese state since 1980 through the prism of 'institutional theory', and charts developments in Wenzhou. It identifies four phases in state policy: religious restoration, tighter control, 'management' of religion, and limiting religious influence. The Church has responded in the past by 'accommodation, negotiation, confrontation and resistance', but in recent years tended towards greater resistance.

The Protestant Community and the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

Author(s): Chan, Shun-hing

In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol 16, No 3, 2015, pp. 380-395

Examines the surprisingly high level of participation by Protestants in the movement, despite the doubts or opposition of church leaders to the Umbrella movement. The author argues this participation can be explained by Richard Wood's theory of faith-based community organizing: using biblical stories, images and symbols to create a culture of protest.

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https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=rel_ja

The New Conscientious Objection: From Sacred to Secular Resistance

Editor(s): Charles C. Moskos, and John Whiteclay Chambers

Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1993, pp. 286

Section 1 suggests ‘the secularization of conscience and modern individ-ualism have been the driving force’ in the rise of conscientious objection. Section 2 looks at the historical record in the USA. Section 3 has articles on France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the former Communist states in Eastern Europe, Israel and South Africa.

The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era

Editor(s): Charles Chatfield

Author(s): Charles De Benedetti

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY, 1990, pp. 495

Detailed and well researched account. Final chapter by Charles Chatfield analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the movement and influence on US policy. Concludes that anti-war activists contributed to the growth of public disaffection with the war, but could not harness it, but that both Johnson and Nixon Administrations adapted their policies in response to pressure from dissenters.

Ironies of Protest: Interpreting the American Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Author(s): Charles Chatfield

In: Guido Grünewald, Peter Van den Dungen, Twentieth-century peace movements: Successes and failures , Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995 , pp. 198-208

Argues radical left never had a cohesive centre and that when movement most confrontational, its liberal wing was working most effectively with the political system. Suggests the movement became associated with social and cultural iconoclasm, which appeal to sections of middle classes, but that the broader public eventually opposed both the war and the antiwar protest, because ‘both seemed to threaten the established social order’.

Georgia’s Rose Revolution

Author(s): Charles H. Fairbanks

In: Journal of Democracy, Vol 15, No April, 2004, pp. 110-134

Explains background to the demonstrations, and elaborates on role of the US government in relation to the elections, and of the George Soros Open Society Foundation in funding opposition and promoting nonviolent prkotest. Comments also on the role of TV stations owned by private entrepreneurs.

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