Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement. By Sharon Erickson Nepstad

摘要

For thirty years, Christian activists in the United States, Europe, andnOceania have taken the prophetic call to “beat swords into plowshares” lit-nerally. Wielding sledgehammers or vials of their own blood, they have dentednnuclear warheads, mangled weapon systems, and made visible the human costsnof war. Plowshares activists have publicized nuclear dangers in dramatic trials,nturned prisons into monasteries, and built a network of communities tonsustain their “resistance.” Religion and War Resistance in the PlowsharesnMovement, Sharon Erickson Nepstad’s sociological account of this movement,nis both sympathetic and scholarly.