Religious Communitarianism, Covenants, and Liberal Theory
On the Political Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6129121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nahshon Pérez (0000-0002-1019-5951, Twitter (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 44-56 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Faith & International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1931-7743 • E-ISSN: 1557-0274 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15570274.2023.2200283 |
| OpenAlex | W4378234082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Lord Rabbi Sacks was a major religious Jewish figure. In this article, we examine his version of a covenant-based communitarianism. We begin with exploring Sacks’ social communitarian view, and his support of a covenant-based politics. We then turn to evaluate Sacks’ covenant-based view, and argue that while his social communitarian view is valuable and important, his covenant-based political view faces the same challenges that troubled communitarian views, namely the fact of religious, value, and ethnic plurality. One possible way forward is via a federalist system, in which covenants are localized
Communitarianism · Covenant · Federalist · Judaism · Liberalism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
Liberal Nationalism
Bowling alone
The Immortal Commonwealth
Culture, Citizenship, and Community
The Jewish Political Tradition
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
The multi-faceted covenant
Political Theology, Religious Diversity and the Nature of Democratic Citizenship
The multidimensional recognition of religion
Is Polarization a Myth
The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self
Toward a Global Covenant of Peaceable Neighborhood
The Coordinates of Covenantal Pluralism
The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
Hegemonic Religions, Majoritarianism, and the Legitimate Limits of Governmental Religious Bias
Religious diversity and federalism
Between Facts and Norms
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |