The New Conscientious Objection: From Sacred to Secular Resistance - Softcover

Moskos, Charles C.

 
9780195079555: The New Conscientious Objection: From Sacred to Secular Resistance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195079558 ISBN 13: 9780195079555
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Conscientious objection to military service has grown rapidly in recent years–this is the first comprehensive and scholarly treatment of the subject. The book examines the changing motives and patterns of conscientious objection as well as state policies toward objectors in the western world.

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Críticas

It combines scrupulous scholarly detail with a degree of sophistication in analysis and general conceptualization not equaled elsewhere in the literature....The editors have compiled a highly useful reference source for scholars and activists, and on that basis alone have produced a work worthy of inclusion in any private or institutional library....The book's quality and usefulness are beyond question. (Peace & Change)

Reseña del editor

Although conscientious objection is a long-standing phenomenon, it has only recently become a major factor affecting armed forces and society. The only comprehensive, comparative scholarly study of conscientious objection to military service, this book examines the history of the practice in the Western world and state policies that have grown up in response to it. It shows how the contemporary refusal to bear arms is likely to be secular and widespread rather than religious and marginal, now including service people (as seen in the 1991 War in the Persian Gulf) as well as conscription resisters. No account of civil-military relations or peace movements in advanced industrial countries is complete without reference to conscientious objection, and this book will be the standard text on the subject.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195079558
ISBN 13 
9780195079555
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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