{"title":"Sir Jonathan Sacks","description":"\u003cp\u003eSir Jonathan Sacks offers profound reflections on modern life, weaving together themes of religion, ethics, and community. His works invite readers to explore the spiritual dimensions of everyday experience with clarity and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging thoughtfully with contemporary social and political issues, his writing encourages dialogue and understanding, making complex ideas accessible without sacrificing depth. These books are a compelling choice for anyone seeking insight into the moral challenges of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-home-we-build-together-by-sir-jonathan-sacks-9780826423498","title":"The Home We Build Together","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'[Sacks] argues like an expert dancer, leading his audience through a waltz of lilting reasonableness', Rafael Behr, Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Identity in a post-multicultural society will have a new foundation, if Sacks has his way', The Tablet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreword by a leading public thinker, this new edition of Rabbi Sacks' searing account of the challenges facing liberal democracy is more urgent than ever. Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social frictions, is today reinforcing them, Sacks proposes a new approach to national identity, making the case for \u003cem\u003eintegrated diversity\u003c\/em\u003e within a framework of shared political values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBritain, he argues, will have to construct a national narrative as a basis for identity, reinvigorate the concept of the common good, and identify shared interests among currently conflicting groups. It must restore a culture of civility, protect \u003cem\u003eneutral spaces\u003c\/em\u003e from politicization, and find ways of moving beyond an adversarial culture in which the loudest voice wins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe argues for a responsibility- rather than rights-based model of citizenship that connects the ideas of giving and belonging. Offering a new paradigm to replace previous models of assimilation on the one hand, multiculturalism on the other, he suggests that we should see society as \u003cem\u003ethe home we build together\u003c\/em\u003e, bringing the distinctive gifts of different groups to the common good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSacks warns of the hazards free and open societies face in the twenty-first century and offers an unusual religious defence of liberal democracy and the nation state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850121793772,"sku":"9780826423498","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6104203482482.jpg?v=1759079749"},{"product_id":"celebrating-life-by-sir-jonathan-sacks-9781399420723","title":"Celebrating Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing the painful loss of his father, former Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased, in part, on Rabbi Sacks’s collection of columns in the UK's \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper, \u003cem\u003eCelebrating Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of reflections on subjects such as morality, friendship, listening to others, and giving thanks. It also discusses topics such as being a parent, finding and losing one’s faith, and most of all, finding happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCelebrating Life\u003c\/em\u003e, Rabbi Sacks discovers where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship, and responsibilities. He also finds it through a renewed relationship with God, who spoke to his deepest needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis redesigned and reissued edition offers something for everyone, spanning people of all faiths and none. It shows us how to be human and, in becoming so, how we can touch the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462681280748,"sku":"9781399420723","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399420723-celebrating-life.jpg?v=1775021122"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/sir-jonathan-sacks.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}