Comparative Approaches to Compassion: Understanding Nonviolence in World Religions and Politics

by Ramin Jahanbegloo

Book Overview

Ramin Jahanbegloo develops the concept of compassion as a practical and ethical response to the problems of today's world. Examining the power of compassion through the lens of multiple world religions, he explores ahimsa in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism and neighbourly love in Christianity, before synthesizing the two concepts in the Gandhian theory of non-violence and its impact on Muslim and Christian thinkers such as Abdul Ghaffar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135028890X
• ISBN13: 9781350288904
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"