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Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning
 
 
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Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning (Hardcover)

by Scotty Mclennan (Author) "Donna Radley lost her religion as a teenager..." (more)
Key Phrases: finding your religion, legal ministry, interdependence stage, Nhat Hanh, Mount Sinai, New York (more...)
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Editorial Reviews
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Finding Your Religion is a guidebook for the perplexed--those who have lost faith in the religion of their youth and are not sure how to continue their spiritual lives. The book's author, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, has plenty of experience with the perplexed; he is a Unitarian minister and the chaplain at Tufts University. (He has also inspired and entertained millions of people indirectly, as the model for the freewheeling character Reverend Scott Sloan in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury.) McLennan has structured Finding Your Religion on a model of six stages of faith--Magic, Reality, Dependence, Interdependence, and Unity. The book describes each of these stages in detail, drawing on McLennan's experience with students' spiritual searches and on his own search (which led him, among other places, to Harvard Law School and to ashrams in the Far East). McLennan's prose is clear and direct; he is very open to exploration, and very tough on laziness. "Pick a religious path and start walking," he writes. "Even if it turns out not to be the right way later on, you won't get anywhere spiritually without starting." --Michael Joseph Gross

From Publishers Weekly
McLennan, the Tufts University Chaplain who inspired Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau's character Reverend Scotty Sloan, shares six steps of a spiritual journey. McLennan targets those who have left the tradition in which they were raised, or those who grew up without any religious background and are now open to a spiritual dimension in their lives. McLennan points out that most people don't get through all the steps and that, often, the steps can intertwine. He sees all religious journeys, be they Bah '!, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Christian or others, as starting with a beckoning of the "spiritual mountain." Readers take the first step by thinking about faith, by opening themselves to the possibilities. The next step is to choose a certain path (religious leanings) and start walking up the mountain. Readers are then encouraged to join fellow travelers of the same bent and, as they grow in that direction, to encompass journeys from other traditions to enrich their own direction. Prayer and meditation, the next step, help mature the inner being. Finally, McLennan speaks of suffering and rejoicing as two important components in any religion and personal spirituality. This is an entertaining, gentle and affirming book for anyone contemplating such a journey. (Dec.)
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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperOne; 1st edition (November 3, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060653477
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060653477
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #816,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • In-Print Editions: Paperback (1 Reprint) |  All Editions