Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the LIFESTYLES AND RELIGIOUS list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 6: LIFESTYLES AND RELIGIOUS This has writings on: relevant lifestyle issues; pacifist communities; and religious and "spiritual" (and other whimsical) attitudes to war and peace. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. The Growth of the Peace Testimony of the Society of Friends, Horace G Alexander (Friends Peace Committee, London, 1956), pmphlt £4.00 The End of Words: Issues in Contemporary Quaker Theology, Rex Ambler (Quaker Books, 2004), pbk £6.00 A revised version of an earlier Quaker booklet, Issues in Quaker Theology. War and the Lambeth Conference - Some Unresolved Issues (Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, London, 1968), pmphlt £3.00 One of the APF's attempts to confront the rest of the Anglican Communion with the pacifist implications (as the APF would see it) of Christianity. Pax Christi - The Peace of Christ: A New Policy for Christendom Today, Albert D Belden (Carwal Publications, Wallington, Surrey, 1944), hbk £6.00 A call for Christians to unite for peace. Whispers of Faith - Young Friends share their experiences of Quakerism, (Eds) W Geoffrey Black, P Zion Klos, Clare Reddy, Milam Smith and Rachel Stacy (Quaker Books, UK / Quaker Press, USA, 2005), pbk £6.00 Suspended Sentence, Arthur Blaxall (Hodder and Stoughton, 1963), hbk £8.50 A Christian pacifist in South Africa tells of his struggle against apartheid. Christianity, Diplomacy and War, Herbert Butterfield (Wyvern Books / The Epworth Press, 1962), pbk £5.00 Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, Diana Leafe Christian (Foreword by Patch Adams) (New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2003), pbk £15.00 In God We Trust: Christian Reflections on the Nuclear Arms Race (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, 1986), pmphlt £2.50 A collection of essays by theologians and campaigners. St Paul from the Trenches - A rendering of the Epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians done in France during the Great War, Gerald Warre Cornish (The Tantivy Press, Malvern, 1948), hbk £10.00 A noteworthy re-translation (from the Greek) of two sections of the bible, undertaken by the author before he was killed in action in 1916. The Healing Heart - Communities: Storytelling to encourage caring and healthy communities (Eds Allison M Cox and David H Albert) (New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2003), pbk £13.00 Peace is the Way - Bringing War and Violence to an End, Deepak Chopra (Rider, 2005), £12.99 Community for Life, Ulrich Eggers (Herald Press, Scotdale, Pennsylvania, USA, 1988), pbk £5.50 A visitor tells of life inside a colony of the Hutterian Brethren. Spirit, Traditionalism and Liberalism, Gwynn Evans (The Plough Publishing House, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, 1958), pmphlt £2.00 The Enthronement of Love, John Ferguson (Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1950), hbk £6.50 A classic espousal of Christian pacifism. The Politics of Love: The New Testament & Non-Violent Revolution, John Ferguson (James Clarke, Cambridge, 1982), pbk £4.00 Love is the Measure, Jim Forest (Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, USA, 1997), £9.99 A biography of Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker. Christianity or War?, A Ruth Fry (Friends Peace Committee, London, 1936), pmphlt £2.00 Hindu Dharma, MK Gandhi (Orient Paperbacks, New Delhi, India, 2005), pbk £7.90 A recent reprint of a selection of Gandhi's writings first published in this form in 1978. The Bhagvadgita, MK Gandhi (Orient Paperbacks, Delhi, India, 1980), pbk £9.90 A sloka-by-sloka interpretation of the work. Demanding Peace: Christian Responses to War and Violence, AE Harvey (SCM Press, 1999), pbk £8.95 Recovering Memory: Guatemalan Churches and the Challenge of Peacemaking, Paul Jeffrey (Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998), pbk £8.00 Gandhi: A Spiritual Journey, MV Kamath (Indus Source Books, Mumbai, India, 2007), pbk £7.95 Knowing the Mystery of Life Within - Selected Writings of Isaac Penington in their Historical and Theological Context, Selected and introduced by R Melvin Keiser & Rosemary Moore (Quaker Books, 2005), pbk £13.50 (published at £18.00) Isaac Penington was one of the founders of the Quakers in the 17th century, the selection includes some of his prison writings. Hostage in Iraq, Norman Kember (Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2007), hbk £14.95 The story of this Christian pacifist's months as a hostage. Loving Your Enemies, Letter from a Birmingham Jail and Declaration of Independence From the War in Vietnam, Martin Luther King (AJ Muste Memorial Institute, New York, USA), pmphlt £1.50 Does the New Testament Sanction War?, George HC MacGregor (The Church of Scotland Peace Society, Lockerbie, c1930s), pmphlt £2.50 Civil Disobedience as Christian Obedience: Theological Reflections on Non-Violent Direct Action in Relation to the Nuclear Issue, Steven Mackie (British Council of Churches / Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1983), pmphlt £9.00 A short, but perhaps uniquely well-argued, call for British churches to get stuck into NVDA. Defeat Triumphant, Lewis MacLachlan (Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1947), hbk £5.00 Widening Circles - A Memoir, Joanna Macy (New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2000), pbk £12.99 An account of "a spiritual life" - Joanna Macy being an activist for peace and deep ecology. Unholy Warfare - The Church and the Bomb, (Eds) David Martin & Peter Mullen (Basil Blackwell, 1983), pbk £4.50 Catholic Perspectives on Peace and War, Thomas J Massaro SJ & Thomas A Shannon (Sheed and Ward, 2003), £15.00 Seeds, Thomas Merton (Edited with an introduction by Robert Inchausti) (Shambhala, Boston, USA, 2002), pbk £11.99 The writings of this Catholic contemplative "combine the candour of Thoreau with the moral vision of Gandhi". Apparently. A Non-Violent Path to Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, (Eds) Kamran Mofid, Alparslan Acigenc, Kevin J McGinley, Sammas Salur (Fatih University Press, Istanbul, & Shepheard- Walwyn Publishers, London, 2008), pbk £18.95 The proceedings of the "Globalisation for the Common Good: An Inter-Faith Perspective" conference held in Istanbul in 2007. Towards a Theology of Reconciliation, (Ed) David Ormrod (British Regional Committee of the Christian Peace Conference, 1985), £2.00 Papers presented to the Sixth All-Christian Peace Assembly, Prague, July 1985. Endeavours to Mend: Perspectives on British Quaker work in the world today, (Ed) Brian Phillips with John Lampen (Quaker Books, 2006), pbk £10.00 Funerals and Memorial Meetings (Quaker Books, 2003), pbk £4.00 Twelve Quakers and Pacifism (Quaker Quest, 2005), £2.50 How you can be a Quaker without being a pacifist. Twelve Quakers and Evil (Quaker Quest, 2006), pamphlet £2.50 The Just War: Force and Political Responsibility, Paul Ramsey (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, USA, 2002), pbk £9.50 A reprint, with a new introduction, of a major work originally published in 1968. The Theological Basis of Christian Pacifism, Charles E Raven (Fellowship of Reconciliation, London, 1958), pbk £6.00 Christianity is Pacifism, William Robinson (George Allen & Unwin, 1933), £20.00 "Persuasive" according to a major contemporary theological journal. Nuclear Deterrence - Right or Wrong?, Roger Ruston (Commission for International Justice and Peace, London, 1981), pmphlt £4.00 A study of the morality of nuclear deterrence, from a Catholic perspective. The Church and the Bomb, Bishop of Salisbury (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982), £2.50 The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict, Ken Sande (Baker Book House, 1991), £9.00 Non-Violent Action: A Christian Appraisal - A Report Commissioned for the United Reformed Church (SCM Press, London, 1973), pbk £3.00 Despite some theological reflections on the nature of peace and conflict, the report concentrates on case studies which highlight examples of effective non-violent action. George Fox & The Quakers, Cecil W Sharman (Quaker Home Service, 1991), pbk £9.00 Answer Time on Tower Hill, Donald Soper (Hodder and Stoughton, 1937), £13.00 Popular Fallacies about the Christian Faith, Donald Soper (Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), £5.00 Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery, Starhawk (Harper, 1990), pbk £18.95 An examination of the nature of power, offering creative alternatives for positive change in personal lives, communities, and the wider world. Walden, Henry David Thoreau (Oxford World's Classics, 1999), pbk £7.99 The Promise of World Peace, The Universal House of Justice (OneWorld Publications, 1986), pbk £4.00 Issued by the Baha'i Faith. Community in Paraguay - A Visit to the Bruderhof, Bob and Shirley Wagoner (Plough Publishing House, Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, 1991), pbk £5.00 The community described was a pacifist community set up in Paraguay in 1941 by people seeking refuge from involvement in the Second World War. Valiant for Peace, Jill Wallis (Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1991), £12.00 The story of the first 75 years of the international religious pacifist network. Christianity versus Violence - A social and historical study of war and Christianity, Stanley Windass (Sheed and Ward, 1964), pbk £5.00 Though written by a Catholic, the book was well-received by others including Quakers. Peace is the Way - Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, (Ed) Walter Wink (Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, USA, 2000), pbk £11.95 An indispensable collection of writings - from Mahatma Gandhi to Dorothy Day to Thich Nhat Hanh - taken from the pages of Fellowship, magazine of the main religious pacifist organisation in the USA. Peacemaking Theology - A study book for individuals and groups, Rowan Williams & Mark Collier (Dunamis, London, 1984), pbk £2.00 Those who've caught up with RW's more recent career will find this little book is just what they might expect.