Dignity of Difference How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations New Revised Edition
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope, The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.<b>These paperback editions of his timeless works celebrate his legacy for today. With stunning new covers and forewords by brilliant writers from around the world, they are perfect for anyone wishing to reacquaint themselves with Rabbi Sacks’ writing, and for introducing a new generation to his evergreen wisdom.</b>
Jewish News
Aims to define nothing less than a basis for religiously sensitive civilisation.
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, The Jewish Chronicle
Americans will be taken with his incisive and clear writing style...he provides some much-needed spiritual uplift in this post-9/11 world, and his work is accessible to informed lay readers.
Library Journal
This book is far more interesting for its discussion of faith and philosophy than for its determination of concrete politics. Perhaps this is the task of rabbis, to explain and guide rather than to rule and legislate. Jonathan Sacks writes well; every sentence counts, but the space behind the grandiloquence always leaves room for interpretation. It is this ambiguity which wins him as many admirers as detractors.
The Jerusalem Post
<i>The Dignity of Difference </i>has a central and compelling vision: the magnificence and inspiring human diversity of our world ... The Chief Rabbi has made a convincing case for respecting people of different faiths and creeds.
Jewish Chronicle
The book "has a bold and important thesis" said Lord Habgood, especially in how it addresses relations between different faiths.
Church Times
Unlike most other religious leaders, Mr Sacks has a wonderfully unbigoted attitude; he thinks and writes with great eloquence supported by an amazingly broad range of sources and reading.
Journey
It is odd that a leading orthodox Rabbi should be at the forefront of a campaign to use religious difference as the catalyst for world peace ... in a brave polemic which is bolstered by feverish intelligence.
The Herald (Glasgow)
Once in a rare while a book comes along that is so powerful and so earth-shattering that we want to get atop the highest mountain and shout out its praises...WE MUST ALL READ THIS BOOK....the most profound and deeply moving argument in favor of religious humanism I can think of.
- Center for Sephardic Heritage, David Shasha
Sacks does not offer much help in determining how religious people are to grapple with such theological questions. His brilliant service is in showing us that we must.
- Paul F. Knitter, International Bulletin of Missionary Research
It is a profound meditation on human diversity and religious differences....It is a timely book for both believers and non-believers alike that has a profound sense of history running through it.
Limited Edition
...wonderful book...bold and controversial.
Commonweal
<i>The Dignity of Difference</i> is an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of globalization on the world in the aftermath of September 11...the book should be required reading for those concerned with the present struggle between Islam and the West and the promises, but also the potential threat, that market globalization represent.
Jewish Book World Quarterly Review
‘Aims to define nothing less than a basis for religiously sensitive civilisation.’
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
‘The Dignity of Difference has a central and compelling vision: the magnificence and inspiring human diversity of our world ... The Chief Rabbi has made a convincing case for respecting people of different faiths and creeds.’ Jewish Chronicle
This redesigned and reissued edition of The Dignity of Difference was Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's radical proposal for reconciling hatreds and includes . Updated for 2025 with a new foreword by Simon Schama.
Almost a quarter of a century ago, the tragedy of September 11 is remembered today as the moment the world woke up to the dangers posed by religious differences and intolerance. In this iconic and critically acclaimed book, reissued with a new foreword, Rabbi Sacks asked, can religion still become a force for peace?
The Dignity of Difference was the first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization. At the time of writing, the politics of identity had began to replace the politics of ideology that dominated the globe in the twentieth-century. Now Rabbi Sack’s heartfelt, clear-sighted and radical proposal for how we might reconcile our differences without violence is as relevant as ever. In it, Sacks argues that we must do more than just search for values common to all faiths. To avoid the clash of civilisations, we must celebrate our differences and respect all the many ways cultures have searched for meaning, so that people of all faiths and none can live together in respectful harmony.
A highly readable and beautifully written book that offers readers the perfect antidote to troubled times.
1. Prologue
2. Globalization and its Discontents
3. The Dignity of Difference: Exorcizing Plato's Ghost
4. Control: The Imperative of Responsibility
5. Contribution: The Moral Case for the Market Economy
6. Compassion: The Idea of Tzedakah
7. Creativity: The Imperative of Education
8. Co-operation: Civil Society and its Institutions
9. Conservation: Environmental Sustainability
10. Conciliation: The Power of a Word to Change the World
11. A Covenant of Hope
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