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