How to Be A Perfect Stranger (6th Edition): The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook

How to Be A Perfect Stranger (6th Edition): The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook

<p><strong>Updated and Revised! Includes Glossary of Popular Religious Symbols</strong></p><p>We North Americans live in a remarkably diverse society, and it's increasingly common to be invited to a wedding, funeral or other religious service of a friend, relative or coworker whose faith is different from our own. These can be awkward situations ...</p><p><strong>What will happen?<br />What do I do? What do I wear? What do I say?<br />What should I avoid doing, wearing, saying?<br />Is it okay to use a video camera?<br />How long will it last? What are their basic beliefs?<br />Will there be a reception? Will there be food?<br />Should I bring a gift? When is it okay to leave?</strong></p><p>These are just a few of the basic questions answered in <em>How to Be a Perfect Stranger</em>. This easy-to-read guidebook, with an "Everything You Need to Know Before You Go" checklist, helps the well-meaning guest to feel comfortable, participate to the fullest extent possible and avoid violating anyone's religious principles―while enriching their own spiritual understanding. For people of all faiths, all backgrounds.</p><p><strong>African American Methodist Churches</strong> • <strong>Assemblies of God</strong> • <strong>Bahá’í Faith</strong> •<strong> Baptist</strong> •<strong> Buddhist</strong> •<strong> Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)</strong> •<strong> Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist)</strong> •<strong> Churches of Christ</strong> •<strong> Episcopalian and Anglican</strong> •<strong> Hindu</strong> •<strong> Islam</strong> •<strong> Jehovah’s Witnesses</strong> •<strong> Jewish · Lutheran</strong> •<strong> Mennonite/Amish</strong> •<strong> Methodist</strong> •<strong> Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)</strong> •<strong> Native American/First Nations</strong> •<strong> Orthodox Churches</strong> •<strong> Pentecostal Church of God</strong> •<strong> Presbyterian</strong> •<strong> Quaker (Religious Society of Friends)</strong> •<strong> Reformed Church in America/Canada</strong> •<strong> Roman Catholic</strong> •<strong> Seventh-day Adventist</strong> •<strong> Sikh</strong> •<strong> Unitarian Universalist</strong> •<strong> United Church of Canada</strong> •<strong> United Church of Christ</strong></p><p></p>