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Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized?; The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society

Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized?; The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society 322 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Europe 2 (2009) 309–323 Roger Trigg, Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 262 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-927980-7, £32.00; $65.00. Jonathan Sacks, Th e Home We Build Together : Recreating Society (New York & London: Continuum, 2007), 272 pp., ISBN: 978-0-82-6480705, £17.99. Th ese are two books addressing the very same pressing danger facing the United Kingdom and other Western countries: multiculturalism bringing forth moral and social segregation. But the therapy they prescribe is diff erent. According to Roger Trigg, a retired Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, reli- gious diversity is a danger to the moral cohesion of society. Th e author rejects the assumption put forth by Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas that religious claims could be checked in a neutral public sphere and by that process turned into a com- mon good. Th ere is no such neutral sphere. Diversity, celebrated as an expression of religious freedom, generates relativism and undermines not only the validity of all religions, but also the constitution of the United Kingdom. Here the author refers to a committee of the House of Lords that dealt http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Europe Brill

Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized?; The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society

Journal of Religion in Europe , Volume 2 (3): 322 – Jan 1, 2009

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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1874-8910
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10.1163/187489109X12495426348924
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322 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Europe 2 (2009) 309–323 Roger Trigg, Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 262 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-927980-7, £32.00; $65.00. Jonathan Sacks, Th e Home We Build Together : Recreating Society (New York & London: Continuum, 2007), 272 pp., ISBN: 978-0-82-6480705, £17.99. Th ese are two books addressing the very same pressing danger facing the United Kingdom and other Western countries: multiculturalism bringing forth moral and social segregation. But the therapy they prescribe is diff erent. According to Roger Trigg, a retired Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, reli- gious diversity is a danger to the moral cohesion of society. Th e author rejects the assumption put forth by Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas that religious claims could be checked in a neutral public sphere and by that process turned into a com- mon good. Th ere is no such neutral sphere. Diversity, celebrated as an expression of religious freedom, generates relativism and undermines not only the validity of all religions, but also the constitution of the United Kingdom. Here the author refers to a committee of the House of Lords that dealt

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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