Eric Weiner is still primarily a coffee drinker. With all of his jaunts around the globe for his recent book, “Man Seeks God,” he has been supplied with many a cup of tea, but at heart he still needs to start his day with some good old java.

“I’d like to be a tea person,” he recently mused. “I always feel better about myself when I drink tea.” He explained that coffee is not inductive to spiritual inclinations, which is what he was after while developing his latest book.

A former foreign correspondent for NPR, Weiner spent time with people of eight different faiths – from Catholicism to Taoism – in order to craft “Man Seeks God.’’

Given more time, Weiner would have liked to include chapters about Hinduism and the Jain faith of India, but decided for logistical and publishing reasons to leave the number at eight. While he’s still curious about other religions, he doesn’t expect to personally revisit shamanism, Raelism, or Wicca. However, he’s gleaned elements from the other faiths included in his book for his life, with Sufism, Buddhism, and Kabbalah rising to the top.

While “Man Seeks God” is often laugh-out-loud funny, and if nothing else a nice crash course on several religions, it is also genuinely thoughtful and purposeful. Inspired by a question from an emergency room nurse while he was ill, Weiner, who had decided that neither atheism nor agnosticism were his thing, went first to California, then Nepal, and beyond to “find his God.”

Not interested in the politics of religion, he chose to keep the narrative relatively free of political discussion. And while he didn’t agree with his Franciscan friends’ protesting at an abortion clinic, he still keeps in touch with one friar from the Bronx and was inspired by the brothers’ volunteerism to help out in his own community near Washington, D.C.

This blend of honest disagreement with elements of each faith and Weiner’s natural people skills is evident in the pages of his book. “I did try to be positive in this book,” he said.

When asked if he ever became bored or impatient during his spiritual endeavors, he said, “I never really hit that wall of religious fatigue.” He could write three more books like this one, he said. Narrowing down the list of religions to explore was the trickiest part for him.

Despite his belief that coffee is not as spiritually gifted in its abilities as tea, Weiner still enjoys his daily cuppa joe at a new place he’s discovered: a local nook equipped with a library and no hovering wait staff. —Bailey Brewer