Books

Solidly based in history and attuned to today, Hicks’s book is a realistic guide to how we can positively live and work together. I highly recommend it as a major contribution to an effective leadership.

Religion and the Workplace...looks at how employers can move away from seeing religion as divisive. The book offers 'respectful pluralism' as a guide for employers handling religious diversity and conflict." HRMagazine"...Hicks' book is an important and excellent contribution to a still underdeveloped public debate on religious diversity in the workplace." Comparative Labor law &Policy Journal, Achim Seifert"...an effective tool to discuss moral, political, religious, and spiritual issues in a diverse workplace.

Douglas Hicks has written an insightful amalgam of a book. This is its strength and weakness. Combining theology, philosophy, social theory, and quantitative economic analysis, he provides for Christian ethics a theoretical and practical approach to the problem of socioeconomic inequality.

Nonetheless, the indisputable achievement of this book is both theological and political: Hicks draws on a range of theological resources to defend a normative Christian position that, in interaction with philosophical approaches, offers a sophisticated affirmation of equality and trenchant critique of inequality. Furthermore, he interprets a wealth of empirical studies to make the point that Christians (with others) need to attend to the values operative within these empirical studies.