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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Global Trajectories of Print Culture in the Indian Ocean

During his South African years (1893-1914), Mohandas Gandhi began fashioning his world-changing ideas on satyagraha/‘passive resistance’.

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Genocide and Hope: Studies in the Architecture of Oppression and the Redemptive Possibilities of Nonviolence

I have conceptualized a work encompassing four distinct yet related books, each around 150 pages long, tentatively entitled the Genocide and Hope Quartet, and comprised of the following parts: Dandi; Auschwitz; Hiroshima; and Robben Island.

Vinay Lal Vinay Lal

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Gandhi and the World of the Hebrew Bible: The Case of Daniel as Satyagrahi

Noort, Ed. 2022. Gandhi and the World of the Hebrew Bible: The Case of Daniel as Satyagrahi. Religions, 13(9), 859. https://doi.org/10.3390/...

Ed Noort Ed Noort

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Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives for Effective Political Resistance and Transformation

Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha.

Catherine du Toit Catherine du Toit Wolfgang Palaver Wolfgang Palaver Ed Noort Ed Noort Ephraim Meir Ephraim Meir Louise du Toit Louise du Toit
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