Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement
Plowshare activists take the biblical injunction to beat swords into plowshares quite literally by hammering on nuclear warheads and jetfighters and “pouring blood” on them both as sacramental invocation of the nonviolence of Jesus and as symbolic reminder of the otherwise sanitized killing potentia...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-379 |
| Review of: | Religion and war resistance in the Plowshares movement (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Morrissey, Christopher)
Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement. (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Morrissey, Christopher) Religion and war resistance in the Plowshares movement (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Morrissey, Christopher) Religion and war resistance in the Plowshares movement (New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Morrissey, Christopher) |
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| Summary: | Plowshare activists take the biblical injunction to beat swords into plowshares quite literally by hammering on nuclear warheads and jetfighters and “pouring blood” on them both as sacramental invocation of the nonviolence of Jesus and as symbolic reminder of the otherwise sanitized killing potential of the technology. The costs of movement activity can be high, with jail sentences as common outcomes. Despite these high costs, the Plowshares movement has outlasted many other peace movements that declined with the end of the Cold War. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq041 |