Our Book of the Semester for Fall 2022 is The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This groundbreaking work, originally published in 2002 and celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, tackles the question of how religion can become a force for peace. A review from the Center of Sephardic Heritage states, "Once in a rare while a book comes along that is so powerful and so earth-shattering that we want to get atop the highest mountain and shout out its praises . . . the most profound and deeply moving argument in favor of religious humanism I can think of."
Sacks, who was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth, died in 2020, so instead of an author lecture, there will be a panel discussion with Rabbi Samuel Spector (Congregation Kol Ami, Salt Lake City), Andrew Reed (Religious Education, BYU), and Rosalynde Welch (Associate Director and Research Fellow, Neal A. Maxwell Institute).
Part of our fall 2022 lecture series, "The Global Religious Experience."