Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion

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.

• | Author: Danya Ruttenberg
• | Publisher: Beacon Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0807010693
• | ISBN-13: 9780807010693