Nonviolence in U.S. History -- New Book

Nonviolence in U.S. History    Acts of Conscience Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy  Kip Kosek Order Your Copy Now and Save 20%! We'd like to offer you 20% off orders of Acts of Conscience. To save 20%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code CUP20 in the "Redeem Coupon" field at check out. Click on the "redeem coupon" button and your savings will be calculated. Now available in paper Read the Introduction | Browse the book in Google Preview | Read the Table of Contents | Reviews | Read essays and op-eds by Kip Kosek    "Kosek has written a key work for all who are interested in the beliefs and causes that helped shape the United States during the twentieth century and beyond." -- Anne Klejment, Journal of American History Beginning with World War I and ending with the ascendance of Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Kip Kosek traces the impact of radical Christian pacifists on American democratic theory and practice. These dissenters found little hope in the secular ideologies of Wilsonian Progressivism, revolutionary Marxism, and Cold War liberalism, all of which embraced organized killing at one time or another. The example of Jesus, they believed, demonstrated the immorality and futility of such violence under any circumstance and for any cause. Yet the theories of Christian nonviolence are anything but fixed. For decades, followers have actively reinterpreted the nonviolent tradition, keeping pace with developments in politics, technology, and culture. Tracing the rise of militant nonviolence across a century of industrial conflict, imperialism, racial terror, and international warfare, Kosek recovers radical Christians' remarkable stance against the use of deadly force, even during World War II and other seemingly just causes. His research sheds new light on an interracial and transnational movement that posed a fundamental, and still relevant, challenge to the American political and religious mainstream.    ORDER THE BOOK      $26.50 $21.20 (with discount code CUP20)  paper  376 pages  20 illus.   For more titles in: U.S. History   U.S Religion FOLLOW Columbia University Press:

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