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The Dignity of Difference
How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Publication Date: 2 August 2002

The year 2001 began as the United Nations Year of Dialogue between Civilizations. By its end, the phrase that came most readily to mind was 'the clash of civilizations.' The tragedy of September 11 intensified the danger caused by religious differences around the world. As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace?

The Dignity of Difference is Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' radical proposal for reconciling hatreds. The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it also marks a paradigm shift in the approach to religious coexistence. Rabbi Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our differences.


Following the publication of a revised version of The Dignity of Difference in 2003, Rabbi Sacks published a pamphlet on Judaism’s attitude towards other faiths and cultures. A Clash of Civilizations? Judaic Sources on Co-existence in a World of Difference includes some 30 pages of biblical and rabbinic sources and 70 pages of commentary by Rabbi Sacks.

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Compelling and hopeful...The really astonishing thing about his achievement is that his application of the Hebrew religious genius to the human condition works whether you believe in God or not... As I devoured this book, and it reads easily, I began to think that what the world really needs is a massive conversion to a secular version of Judaism.
The Guardian
It is a splendid book. In the light of September 11, it is timely, sensible, well written and thoughtful.
The Times
There is no doubt that The Dignity of Difference is a profound book that forces believers to think and think again.
The Independent
The Dignity of Difference stands far above other books about globalization and the so-called clash of civilizations, both for what it has to say and for the grace with which it says it... In this, his most prophetic work, Rabbi Sacks has written a guide for the perplexed.
The Daily Telegraph
He outlines a set of theses aimed at defining nothing less than a basis for religiously sensitive civilization, doing so with all the clarity his writings invariably show.
Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury, writing in The Jewish Chronicle