Gandhi's Way - by Mark Juergensmeyer (Paperback)

About the Book

"A fascinating, thought-provoking, helpful and heartening book."--"Los Angeles Times"
"Juergensmeyer's book is something of a Gandhian tour de force -- a careful analysis and series of applications of Gandhi's concepts of satyagraha . . . to everyday situations with which most Western readers are familiar."--"Religious Studies Review"
"This is a manual of instruction in the best sense: a popular reassessment of the activist use of satyagraha in conflict resolution that has depth and a true appreciation for the ethical subtleties of dialectical struggles, and for the multiple dimensions of 'passive resistance.'"--"Library Journal"

Book Synopsis

Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict--at home or in business; in local, national, or international arenas. This invaluable handbook, updated with a new preface and a new case study on terrorism in Northern Ireland, sets out Gandhi's basic methods and illustrates them with practical examples. Juergensmeyer shows how parties at odds can rise above a narrow view of self-interest to find resolutions that are satisfying and beneficial to all involved. He then pits Gandhi's ideas against those of other great social thinkers in a series of imaginary debates that challenge and clarify Gandhi's thinking on issues of violence, anger, and love. He also provides a Gandhian critique of Gandhi himself and offers viable solutions to some of the gaps in Gandhian theory.

Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution was previously published as Fighting with Gandhi and Fighting Fair.

From the Back Cover

"A fascinating, thought-provoking, helpful and heartening book."--Los Angeles Times

"Juergensmeyer's book is something of a Gandhian tour de force -- a careful analysis and series of applications of Gandhi's concepts of satyagraha ... to everyday situations with which most Western readers are familiar."--Religious Studies Review

"This is a manual of instruction in the best sense: a popular reassessment of the activist use of satyagraha in conflict resolution that has depth and a true appreciation for the ethical subtleties of dialectical struggles, and for the multiple dimensions of 'passive resistance.'"--Library Journal

Review Quotes

"This is a manual of instruction in the best sense: a popular reassessment of the activist use of "satyagraha in conflict resolution that has depth and a true appreciation for the ethical subtleties of dialectical struggles, and for the multiple dimensions of 'passive resistance.'"--"Library Journal"A fascinating, thought-provoking, helpful, and heartening book."--Marjorie Lewellyn Marks, "Los Angeles Times "Juergensmeyer's book is something of a Gandhian tour de force--a careful analysis and series of applications of Gandhi's concepts of "satyagraha...to everyday situations with which most Western readers are familiar."--Joe Elder, "Religious Studies Review "A crisply written, cogently argued little manual exploring the practical implications of "satyagraha (truth force)."--"Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (revised edition, 2003) and The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (1993), both from California.