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Author / Creator: Bender, Courtney.
Formato: Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico
Idioma:English
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.
coleção:Morality and society.
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Acesso em linha:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
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Resumo: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.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
ISBN:9780226042817 (online)
9780226042831 (online)
9781283150668 (online)
Notas de Autor:Courtney Bender is assistant professor of religion and sociology at Columbia University