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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations With The Divine (2011)

by Eric Weiner(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0446539473 (ISBN13: 9780446539470)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Twelve

review 1: The author, an NPR correspondent, hop skips through a handful of "religions" in search of something to fill his spiritual hole. At times his narrative is witty and even insightful, but mostly he comes across as petulant until the last chapter. Here he has a oddly unconvincing epiphany that Khabbalah is for him.By far the best parts of this book were the many quotes from other more renowned spiritualists.
review 2: Eric Weiner combines self-effacing humor with a rather serious quest for spiritual depth and insight in this book, which follows a series of first-hand investigations. It all begins with a seemingly impertinent question by a hospital nurse--"Have you found your God yet?"In eight chapters, Weiner surveys intriguing manifestations of Sufi Islam, Buddhi... moresm, Franciscan Catholicism, an absurd cult called Raelism, Taoism, Wicca, Shamanism, and Kabbalah Judaism (ending his journey close to home base, since he is nominally Jewish). "Seeks" functions as a decisive predicate in the book's title, placed between the subject ("Man," not in the generic sense, but as self-identification) and the object ("God," open to any number of interpretations, all basically religious though not necessarily theistic). The introduction distinguishes this quest from the approach of William James in Varieties of Religious Experience, which was detached and objective, while Weiner's approach is that of total albeit temporary immersion. There's much to be learned by reading this book, but even if there weren't, it's very entertaining to go along with Weiner on this quest. less

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