Reddit reviews How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook, Fourth Edition
We found 3 Reddit comments about How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook, Fourth Edition. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Used Book in Good Condition
May I recommend this book to you?
Edit: more recent edition
For about five years, I ran a group in NYC called the Religion Tourbus. It was for people who were looking for a new religion, curious about religions, etc. We'd pick a new tradition about once a month, and read up about it. Then we'd go en masse to a service.
We covered the lot - Hindu festivals, Buddhist sangha gatherings, Muslim khutbah services, various flavors of Judaism (Reform, conservative) and Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Pentecostal, Mormon, Quaker, etc), Wiccan parties as well as some of those kooky one-offs that make NYC great. (My favorite was a "hip-hop Taoist" church.)
Almost a third of Americans change religions in their lifetimes (according to one study). So the act of "spiritual shopping" is absolutely part of a modern tradition. We just don't happen to have many institutionalized ways of doing it.
If you're still looking — if anyone's still looking — good luck! I used to refer people to the "Belief-o-Matic" on BeliefNet, which appears to still be a thing. It tells you what tradition your belief system matches most closely.
You can also make your own "Religion Tourbus." It's not hard! If you're concerned about walking into a strange tradition, don't be. Almost all modern traditions welcome walk-ins, and those traditions with a closed membership (Zoroastrians, Druze) often have people who can be on point to talk to you, if you're interested. If you feel awkward about offending someone, there's a great book, [How to Be a Perfect Stranger] (http://www.amazon.com/How-Perfect-Stranger-Essential-Religious/dp/1594731403) which teaches you religious etiquette for tons of traditions.
Best of luck! Agree with other posts about chasing your truth. I found that Quakers, low-mystic Buddhists and intellectual esoterics like Gurdjieff held the most answers for me. It's okay to be a patchwork.
And you can also just be one of the great undecided.
Could it be How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook?