Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

(University of Chicago Press) This book presents the often-overlooked religious views of urban mothers living in poverty. While many of these women do not participate in religious organizations, this book shows that religious faith often plays a strong role in their lives, both motivating and constraining their actions as they contend with and try to make sense of the challenges they face. Sullivan is an assistant professor of sociology and an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.