Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution by Mark Juergensmeyer ISBN: 0-520-22344-6 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Gandhi-scam
Comment: I second every criticism that the first reviewer from Davis, California, made concerning "Gandhi's Way". The "solutions" that the author, Mark Juergensmeyer, dreams up may be fine for very localized quarrels where the stakes are not high but they don't work when faced with enemies such as Heinrich Himmler or Osama bin Laden -- or, for that matter, rapacious "neighbors" such as the administration of the University of California here Davis.
As for conflicts between nations, Gandhi failed to respond when challenged (in 1932 by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr)to address this issue, particularly as it applied to Hitler's German. Juergensmeyer tries to get over this failure by inventing a dialogue between Gandhi and Niebuhr but he can't pull it off.
All in all this is a thin book -- in more ways than one.
Rating: 3
Summary: Can't we all just get along?
Comment: Some good ideas, if a trifle idealistic. See also Gandhi's autobiography, "My experiments with truth," and Bondurant's "Conquest of Violence." Note that ISBNs 0520223446, 0062504398, and 006250438X are the identical book, published 2/2002, 10/1989, and 1/1986 under the titles "Gandhi's Way," "Fighting Fair," and "Fighting with Gandhi." The titles are the _only_ differences between the three editions.
Rating: 1
Summary: Nothing special...
Comment: I was not impressed in the least by Gandhi's Way. Mark Juergensmeyer does a good job summing up Gandhi's thoughts, but they are not anything special. The solutions to the problems created by the author are not solutions that would work in real-life conflicts and many of his ideas conflict with each other. The conflict resolutions that are good ideas (along with those that aren't) are nothing special or spiritual at all. It's absurd to pretend that considering another option is something spiritual. Don't waste your time reading this book; anything it suggests you could have thought of on your own... in a quarter of the time.
 |
Title: Terror in the Mind of God : The Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer ISBN: 0520240111 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
 |
Title: To Rule Jerusalem by Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht ISBN: 0520220927 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (Second Edition) by Bernard Wasserstein ISBN: 0300097301 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
 |
Title: Global Religions: An Introduction by Mark Juergensmeyer ISBN: 0195158741 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ashwin Desai ISBN: 1583670505 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
