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Asserting that violence of any kind is an affront to the teachings of Jesus, Tolstoy’s nonfiction masterpiece traces the origins of nonviolent resistance to the foundations of Christianity and espouses it as a means to solve both individual and national woes. This impassioned apology of Christian pacifism influenced luminaries such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. The book features
The product of a 25-year exploration of India’s cultural and religious traditions, this collection of biographies introduces the reader to nine unforgettable characters, including a Buddhist monk who takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet and then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India; a Jain nun who tests her