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Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
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ISBN10: 0807010693
ISBN13: 9780807010693
Publisher: Beacon Pr
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807010693
Publisher: Beacon Pr
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided she was an atheist. As a young adult, she immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late 1990s San Francisco-drinking smuggled absinthe with wealthy geeks and plotting the revolution with feminist zinemakers. But she found herself yearning for something she would eventually call God. Surprised by God is a memoir of a young woman's spiritual awakening and eventual path to the rabbinate, a story of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism, without sacrificing either. It's also an unflinchingly honest guide to the kind of work that goes into developing a spiritual practice-and it shows why, perhaps, doing this in today's world requires more effort than ever.
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