Table Of ContentCivility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice
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Civility,
Nonviolent Resistance,
and the New Struggle for
Social Justice
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Amin Asfari
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Contents
Notes on Contributors VII
Introduction 1
Amin Asfari
1 The Language of Civility and Resistance: A Critique of Tolerance and
Violence 9
William Gay
2 Civility, Ethical Democracy, and the Pacific Faith 27
Andrew Fiala
3 Gandhi, Epictetus, and Political Resistance 49
Sanjay Lal
4 Howard Thurman and the African American Nonviolence
Tradition 65
Kipton E. Jensen
5 Contesting Religious Governmentality: The Bhakti-Sufi Movements of
Medieval India 90
Farrukh Hakeem
6 Decolonizing Paradigms of Normative Evaluation: The Coloniality of
Just War Theory 111
James R. Walker
7 Cry “Genocide!” for All the Good It Will Do 127
Paul Wilson
8 The Enlightenment’s Post-9/11 Legacy 142
Kimberly Baxter
9 Why Do Poor Whites Vote for Republicans When Republicans Hate
Them? 163
Robert Paul Churchill
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10 How Mind Viruses and Rhinoceroses Promote Tyranny 181
Paula Smithka
11 Josef Pieper’s Defense of the Geisteswissenschaften 203
Rashad Rehman
12 The Quest for Genuine Democracy: A Promise of Democracy to
Come 234
Edward Demenchonok
Index 261
Notes on Contributors
Amin Asfari
Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Wake Tech College, and
an adjunct Professor in the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Politi-
cal Science at Campbell University, where he teaches criminology, ethics, and
American government. Amin recently published an article in Tikkun Maga-
zine titled “Who Gets to Define Anti-Semitism?” (with Ron Hirschbein, 2019).
He also co-authored a book chapter (in press), examining the conspiratorial
roots of Islamophobia and Antisemitism, titled “Elders and Brothers” (with
Ron Hirschbein, 2019). Other forthcoming works include an empirical assess-
ment of Muslim attitudes toward police in America; a study of Muslim victim-
ization in the US and Canada; and a co-authored book explicating the
relationship between conspiratorial thinking, Islamophobia, and Antisemi-
tism (with Ron Hirschbein).
Kimberly Baxter
teaches philosophy at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York,
NY and Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. In addition to peace stud-
ies, her research interests include anarchism, human & animal rights, Asian
philosophy, and philosophy of mind. She holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy
from New School University.
Robert Paul Churchill
served as Romeo Elton Professor of Moral and Natural Philosophy at George
Washington University, where he was also chair of the department, and direc-
tor of the Peace Studies Program. His published books include Becoming Logi-
cal; Democracy, Social Values and Public Policy (ed.); The Ethics of Liberal
Democracy (ed.); Human Rights and Global Diversity; and most recently, Women
in the Crossfire: Understanding and Ending Honor Killing, from Oxford Univer-
sity Press. He is presently at work on a book about gun violence in America,
toxic masculinity, and sub-cultures of shame and honor.
Edward Demenchonok
has worked as a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and is currently a Professor of Foreign Languag-
es and Philosophy at Fort Valley State University, USA. He is listed in 2000 Out-
standing Scholars of the 21st Century. His numerous books and articles are in
the fields of the philosophy of culture, political philosophy, and ethics. R ecently
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viii Notes on Contributors
he edited and contributed to A World Beyond Global Disorder: The courage to
Hope (with Fred Dallmayr, 2017); Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony
in Diversity (2016); The Quest for Change: From Domination to Dialogue (2016);
Philosophy after Hiroshima (2010); and Between Global Violence and Ethics of
Peace: Philosophical Perspectives (2009).
Andrew Fiala
Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Center at California
State University, Fresno. His published work includes: Transformative Pacifism
(Bloomsbury, 2018), The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence
(Routledge, 2017), The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace (Brill 2015), The
Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (Bloomsbury 2015), and the 9th
edition of Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with co-author Barbara
MacKinnon (Cengage, 2017). Fiala is a past President of Concerned Philoso-
phers for Peace. He writes a weekly column on religion, politics, and ethics for
the Fresno Bee. For more information: www.andrewfiala.com.
William Gay
is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Within
Concerned Philosophers for Peace, he has served as President, Executive Di-
rector, Newsletter Editor, and “Philosophy of Peace” Book Series Editor. He has
published seven books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on is-
sues of violence, war, peace, and justice. He also serves on the editorial boards
of the journals The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence,
Philosophy and Social Criticism, and the Journal of Globalization Studies.
Farrukh Hakeem
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, was admitted to the Bar, Bombay High
Court and also earned an LL.M from Bombay University, before immigrating to
the US where he earned an M.A. (Sociology), Univ. Of Arizona and, a Ph.D.
(Criminal Justice), from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has written
many articles and recently co-authored a book (also available in Urdu)—
Policing Muslim Communities. Comparative International Context (Springer).
His current Indian research interests: legal history, comparative law, police re-
form, gender violence, human rights and policing minorities.
Kipton E. Jensen
is an associate professor of philosophy at Morehouse College, the director of
the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership, and the co-director of the
International Comparative Labor Studies program. He earned a doctorate in
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Notes on Contributors ix
philosophy from Marquette University and was a Fulbright Scholar at Martin-
Luther-Universität. Jensen is the author of Hegel: Hovering (2011), Parallel Dis-
courses (2012), Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for
Common Ground (2019), and coeditor of Howard Thurman’s Sermons on the
Parables (2018).
Sanjay Lal
is senior lecturer of philosophy at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA. He
has authored many scholarly works related to peace and nonviolence. His
book Gandhi’s Thought and Liberal Democracy (Lexington Books) was pub-
lished in 2019. Lal has served on the executive committee of Concerned Phi-
losophers for Peace since 2012 and is currently an associate editor of The Acorn:
Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence.
Rashad Rehman
BA, PhD(c), is a doctoral student in Philosophy (Collaborative Program in
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Track) at the University of Toronto. He has
spoken at The University of Toronto, Western University, King's University
College, York University, The University of Victoria, and The University of Brit-
ish Columbia. He has published articles in journals such as Meteorite, Sophia,
Conatus, Sapere Aude, et cetera. While he works primarily on characterology in
St. Augustine's Confessions, his current interest is in the defense of the liberal
arts found in the writings of Josef Pieper. He also maintains strong interest in
St. Thomas Aquinas, G.K. Chesterton and Plato.
Paula Smithka
is an associate professor of Philosophy and program coordinator for Philoso-
phy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her
Ph.D. from Tulane University. Among her publications, Smithka has co-edited
three books, two with Courtland Lewis, Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on
the Inside and More Doctor Who and Philosophy: Regeneration Time and one
with Alison Bailey, Community, Diversity and Difference: Implications for Peace.
Her research interests include philosophy of science, in particular, philosophy
of biology; social/political philosophy, particularly issues in peace and just-war
theory; and the intersections between popular culture and philosophy.
James R. Walker
Ph.D., RN, is currently a professional lecturer of Peace, Justice, and Conflict
Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He is also the executive director and
co-founder of the Asteroidea Health Alliance, a nonprofit organization that
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