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  • Militant Nonviolence: A Spirituality for the Pursuit of Social Justice

  • James P. Hanigan
  • Journal:
    Horizons / Volume 9 / Issue 1 / Spring 1982
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 September 2014, pp. 7-22
    Print publication:
    Spring 1982

  • This essay suggests that a clearer understanding of violence and nonviolence as means to be used in the pursuit for justice will be achieved if we move the discussion of nonviolence to the domain of spirituality rather than ethics. A distinction is made between militant nonviolence and historic forms of pacifism and nonresistance, and it is argued that militant nonviolence only makes sense as a spirituality, rather than as an ethical demand. Finally it is argued that such a spirituality is essential for the pursuit of justice and some practical implications are drawn.