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Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement
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Pages: 284
Authors: Sharon Erickson Nepstad
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Nepstad documents the trajectories of various Plowshares movement groups, revealing how activist decisions affect longevity.
Plowshares
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Authors: Kristen Tobey
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guard
Both Swords and Ploughshares
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Authors: Ineke Bockting
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-13 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This collection of essays examines interactions of war, peace and religion in the United States, a country where religious faith was, and still is, often deeply
Catholic Social Activism
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A history of Catholic social thought Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contraception,
Doing Time for Peace
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Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-30 - Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

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In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by eng