Non nel nome di Dio. Confrontarsi con la violenza religiosa

NOT IN GOD’S NAME is one of the most profound books I have ever read. Jonathan Sacks provides an incisive analysis of the roots of religious violence and hopeful direction on the way that humanity may move forward in dealing with it. As recent events in France have demonstrated, none of us are immun Leggi tutto

This is a really excellent book, and an easy read for anyone interested in the issues. The first half is a helpful and informed survey of what I regard as some of the most useful psycho-social authors on the analysis of today's epidemic of religiously-motivated violence around the world. It is eloqu Leggi tutto

This may be one of the most powerful books I have read in the past decade, and I hope and pray that it receives an enormous readership. One reviewer thought that Rabbi Sacks may be "preaching to the choir" and not reaching those who perpetrate religious violence. I see the concern, especially given

I originally picked up this book only because I am generally a fan of Rabbi Sacks' writing. The question of "why does religion cause violence" has never really interested me, because I've read enough history to know it's a false premise. Nevertheless, I've read almost everything else Rabbi Sacks has Leggi tutto

This is a very important book for religious people. There is a constant, popular drumbeat declaring with loud authority, that religion is the source of the worst violence today and throughout history. I know this is nonsense repeated by those who, for their own reasons, are antagonistic to religion, Leggi tutto

Jonathan Sacks is one of the most inspiring and important religious thinkers of our time. Thankfully, he's incredibly prolific. This book is Sacks's response to the new atheists (Hitchens, Harris and company) who claim religion is responsible for all the evil in society, but especially the violence

One of my top three favorite books this year. I wish communities could read it in mixed-tradition groups--like the interfaith groups that once discussed the book of Genesis, or before that (and on a completely different plane), Constantine's Sword. On the other hand, maybe with a book like Not In Go Leggi tutto