Moffatt, Virginia

Moffatt, Virginia

Virginia Moffatt

1 February 2008Review

(Paradigm, 2006; ISBN 1594512663; 288pp; £16.99)

Gandhi and Beyond is divided into three parts: the first two chapters look at the work of Gandhi and Martin Luther King; the next three at how their ideas have been used by other activists such as Cesar Chavez and Dorothy Day; and the final two at issues of gender and principles for action. The author says in his introduction that he hopes it will add to academic knowledge about nonviolence, whilst also inspiring people to act. I think he is more successful in the former objective, than the…