Portland Public Library

The home we build together, recreating society, Jonathan Sacks

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index

index present

non fiction

The home we build together

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Jonathan Sacks

"The multiculturalism char was intended to reduce social frictions is today reinforcing them. Jonathan Sacks calls for a new approach to national identity: we cannot stay with the current policies that are producing a society of conflicting ghettoes and non-intersecting lives, turning religious bodies into pressure groups." "Offering a new paradigm to replace previous models of assimilation on the one hand, multiculturalism on the other, he argues that we should see society as 'the home we build together', bringing the distinctive gifts of different groups to the common good."--Jacket

recreating society

Part 1. How did we get here? Introduction -- Society as country house, hotel or home -- A brief history of multiculturalism -- The defeat of freedom in the name of freedom -- Victims -- Technology and the fragmentation of culture -- The inward turn -- Part 2. A theory of society creation. A forgotten political classic -- Social contract, social covenant -- Telling the story -- The responsible society -- The home we build together -- Part 3. Where next? The uses of covenant -- Who am I? -- Face-to-face, side-by-side -- Civility -- Multiculturalism or tolerance? -- Mending the broken family -- A religious defence of liberal democracy -- A time to build