Life can really come at you like a ton of bricks. One minute you are enjoying your twenties, and the next you get a bunch of life lessons in the course of three months. But at least you have your best friend by your side, and you manage and own one of the hottest bookstores in Washington, DC. What else could go wrong, besides everything? Nev and Will thought owning a bookstore in the nation's capital would be the most stressful thing they would endure as they come into adulthood, but life has other plans for them. Just when they think they have a handle on everything, another fastball in thrown, and no one has a glove. No one ever said life was going to be easy, but even this is kind of ridiculous.
How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? How do our daily encounters with people who hold different religious beliefs shape the way we understand our own moral and spiritual selves? In Heaven's Kitchen, Courtney Bender takes a highly original approach to answering these questions. For more than a year she worked in New York City as a volunteer for a nonprofit, nonreligious organization called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare home-cooked meals for people with AIDS. Paying close attention to what was said and not said, Bender traces how the volunteers gave voice to their moral positions and religious values. She also examines how they invested their conversations, and mundane activities such as cooking, with personal meaning that in turn affected how they saw their own spiritual lives. Filled with vibrant storytelling and rich theoretical insights, Heaven's Kitchen shows faith as a living practice, reshaping our understanding of the role of religion in contemporary American life.
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