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Highlights
- After years as a Hollywood writer and filmmaker, Kristin Hahn felt a crisis of faith: she had no spiritual group she could call her own.
- Author(s): Kristin Hahn
- 320 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, History
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Book Synopsis
After years as a Hollywood writer and filmmaker, Kristin Hahn felt a crisis of faith: she had no spiritual group she could call her own. Setting out on a three-year journey, she began an investigation of America's religious traditions, practices, and beliefs.
Crisscrossing the nation, Hahn spent a week cloistered in prayer with convent nuns and a month of Ramadan fasting with Muslims. She went door-to-door with young Mormon missionaries and head-to-head with turbaned Sikh yogis. She sat through marathon meditations with Buddhist masters and spent days in conversation and ceremony with an 0jibwe medicine man. Her explorations exposed her to the rich, ancient culture of the Jews and brought her into the enclaves of Christian Scientists and Amish farmers, as well as the less traditional realms of Scientology, neopagan witchcraft, and the congregations of new-age gurus.
And this was only the beginning.
Openhearted, humorous, and always thoughtful, In Search of Grace offers nourishment for our spiritual hunger -- and a myriad of ways to find a religious home.
Review Quotes
"Illuminating...Elegant...Cathartic." -- Boston Globe
Praise for Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn's Anthem: "This roaming book of diaries and dialogues is very pleasing. . . . The two are so earnest, so honest . . . you're quickly disarmed." -- Entertainment Weekly (A-)
"Hahn and Gabel have done what most of us only dream about" -- Good Morning America
"Spirited and insightful" -- Los Angeles Times
"An adventurous and colorful portrait of what it means to be passionately American." -- Chicago Tribune