The Secret Life of Bees begins with a quintessential Christian concept: sin. Most importantly, the characters use their religious faith to confront their own guilt, and learn how to forgive themselves and each other.
This points to the fact that the characters believe in building a personal relationship with the Virgin Mary and the transcendent, outside of the tenets of organized religion. And yet none of the characters have much respect for churches (indeed, the only priest in the book is portrayed as being foolish at best and racist at worst).
The characters gain wisdom and happiness by gathering together to worship Christian figures like the Virgin Mary, and Lily Owens, the protagonist, has some of her most important insights while she’s praying. It’s easy to see that The Secret Life of Bees is a religious novel, even an explicitly Christian novel.
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