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The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society
"Multiculturalism has run its course, and it is time to move on." So begins Jonathan Sacks' new book on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy.
Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social frictions, is today reinforcing them, Sacks argues for a new approac
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Published
June 2nd 2009
by Continuum
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My book club read this together, and the consensus was that we were disappointed in this book, especially considering how good Rabbi Sacks' other books are. His premise, that if a group of people work cooperatively to create something, they will exhibit ownership in it. This is fairly obvious, but the way that he applies this to modern multiculturalism is novel. He insists that multiculturalism has failed, and is steadily creating identities which are more and more fragmented and segregated f...more
Taking the concept of Covenant as the central theme the Rabbi demonstrates how the Biblical ideal of a society is still relevant and workable today in our own society, which he warns, and shows, is on the point of collapse. A pity that this will largely be ignored by those who would see this as a 'religious' book for Jews, it is in fact a superb defence of, and apology for, liberal democracy which our political leaders would do well to study. I would have given it 5 stars but by the end I still ...more
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anyone who wants to understand me or are otherwise politically or socially minded
Recommended to Holly by:
Prof. Stephen Pope
I'm a youngish, female, American atheist. He's an oldish, male, British rabbi. But if you want to get who I am, read this book.
It's about the fact that as human beings, we all share the same fate and as such share the same basic rights AND responsibilities. He talks about the bible not in terms of faith but as an ancient political text akin to other historical political works he also discusses.
We are what we make of ourselves, and in our individualistic world, we can't make a whole lot...more
It's about the fact that as human beings, we all share the same fate and as such share the same basic rights AND responsibilities. He talks about the bible not in terms of faith but as an ancient political text akin to other historical political works he also discusses.
We are what we make of ourselves, and in our individualistic world, we can't make a whole lot...more
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Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Kt is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His Hebrew name is Yaakov Zvi.
As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he is the Chief Rabbi of the mainstream British orthodox synagogues, but not the religious authority for the Federation of Synagogues or the Union of Orthodox H...more
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As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he is the Chief Rabbi of the mainstream British orthodox synagogues, but not the religious authority for the Federation of Synagogues or the Union of Orthodox H...more
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