The Persistence of Faith: Religion, Morality and Society in a Secular Age by Jon

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A powerful book for readers of all faiths today, Rabbi Sacks argues that religious values must remain a strong force within our culture.

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Rabbi Sacks passionately argues for the importance of faith and religious values in today's consumerist society with crystalline intelligence and deep compassion. What is the role of religion in a secular society? This is the question that Rabbi Sacks answered in his seminal 1990 Reith Lectures. Now reissued thirty years on, his prescient and moving argument for the renewal of religious values is powerfully relevant to our present moment. In a series of acclaimed essays, Rabbi Sacks addresses the fact that religion often appears on the world stage as a destabilising threat to liberal democracies – from the influence of the moral majority in the USA to the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the renewed vigour of Catholicism in Europe and Africa, there are many who fear the resurgence of faith.However, Sacks' solution is not to drive religion further into retreat and promote secularisation. Instead, he argues tolerance must lie at the heart of this renewal of traditional values. Faiths of many different kinds can together provide a cohesive morality to unite us all despite our differences and provide meaning and dignity in an otherwise consumerist society. It is essential that religions, as Sacks eloquently argues, respect the unconditional rights of their fellow humans regardless of their faiths, or lack of faith, while working together towards this common good.

Author Biography

Sir Jonathan Sacks, who died in late 2020, 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.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction1 The Environment of Faith2 Demoralisation3 The Fragile Family4 Paradoxes of Pluralism5 Fundamentalism6 A Community of Communities7 AfterwordFurther Reading

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A powerful book for readers of all faiths today, Rabbi Sacks argues that religious values must remain a strong force within our culture.

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Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates on moral issues. They must also learn to get along better. His thesis is that we still live under a biblical canopy and that a cohesive morality needs the uniting bonds of faith.....Confidence in a faith is a subtle quality and lack of it shows in many ways, some contradictory. Dr Sacks has that confidence and the quiet charisma to communicate it. The subject of this book - religions and ethics - is good ground for him to build on: The Jewish contribution to ethics is distinctly rational and has a long and illustrious tradition. Moral philosophy is, after all, a Jewish preoccupation.....In recent years, Sacks writes, religion has taken us unawares. The rise of the 'Moral Majority' in the USA, the Islamic Revolution, the growth of religious parties in Israel, the power of Catholicism in Poland and the African continent all run contrary to the basic thesis that modernity and secularization went hand-in-hand and could almost be regarded as synonyms. Instead and against all predictions, religion has resurfaced in the public domain.....In this book, Sacks argues the case for a broadly based return to tradition within the context of religious pluralism and tolerance. Religious values remain a strong force within our culture to be renewed. For our society to be viable, indeed, they must be renewed.

Details ISBN0826478557 Author Sir Jonathan Sacks Short Title PERSISTENCE OF FAITH Pages 128 Language English ISBN-10 0826478557 ISBN-13 9780826478559 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2005 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1948 Series Continuum Compact Series Edition New edition Illustrations black & white illustrations Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DOI 10.1604/9780826478559 Series Number 1990 UK Release Date 2005-04-01 NZ Release Date 2005-04-01 Translated from English Subtitle Religion, Morality and Society in a Secular Age Publication Date 2005-04-01 DEWEY 291.01 Audience General AU Release Date 2005-01-03 We've got this

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