Courtney Bender is the author of Heaven’s Kitchen: Living Religion at God’s Love We Deliver and The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination and is the co-editor of collective volumes on secularism and spirituality, religious pluralism, critical approaches to the sociology of religion, and other topics. She is completing a book on modernist projects to promote the religion of the future that developed in twentieth century architectural and urban planning projects.
Recent Publications
The Abyss or Life Is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion. Edited by Courtney Bender, et al. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
"Religious Horizons in New York's 1920s." Grey Room 88 (2022): 78–101.
"Mrs. Rockefeller’s Exquisite Corpse." Comparative Studies in Society and History 63, no. 4 (2021): 768-797.