Religion and Non-violent Civil Disobedience

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Explores diverse traditions of non-violent civil disobedience, with special emphasis on Mohandas Gandhi’s religious ideals of nonviolence (ahimsā) and truth (satya) as applied in personal, social, political and environmental contexts. Comparisons drawn to the work of religious and political figures such as B. R. Ambedkar, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Krishnamurti, Thich Nhat Hanh, Aung San Suu Kyi and the Dalai Lama.