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Author Sacks, Jonathan, 1948-2020 author.

Title Not in God's name : confronting religious violence / Jonathan Sacks.

Publication Info. New York : Schocken Books, 2015.

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 Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction   201.7633 SAC    AVAILABLE
 East Hampton Adult Nonfiction   201.7633 SAC    AVAILABLE
 East Lyme Public New Non Fiction   201.7633 Sacks    AVAILABLE
 Guilford Adult Non-Fiction   201.76 SACKS    AVAILABLE
 Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 2nd Floor   201.763/SAC    AVAILABLE
 North Haven Adult Nonfiction   201.76332 Sacks, Jonathan    AVAILABLE
 Orange/Case Adult Nonfiction Book   201 Sacks    AVAILABLE
 Wallingford Adult Nonfiction   201.76332 SACKS    AVAILABLE
 Woodbridge Adult NF 200-299   201.76332/SAC    AVAILABLE
Description ix, 305 pages ; 25 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner. In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit—that is, my religion is the only right path to God, therefore your religion is by definition wrong—and individuals are motivated by what Rabbi Sacks calls “altruistic evil,” violence between peoples of different beliefs appears to be the only natural outcome. But through an exploration of the roots of violence and its relationship to religion, and employing groundbreaking biblical analysis and interpretation, Rabbi Sacks shows that religiously inspired violence has as its source misreadings of biblical texts at the heart of all three Abrahamic faiths. By looking anew at the book of Genesis, with its foundational stories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah.
Subject Violence -- Religious aspects.
Abrahamic religions.
Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 9780805243345 (hardcover)
0805243348 (hardcover)