New Directions in Spiritual Kinship

1. Introduction: Re-sacralizing the Social: Spiritual Kinship at the Crossroads of the Abrahamic Religions
Todne Thomas, Rose Wellman, Asiya Malik

2. Spiritual Kinship Between Formal Norms and Actual Practice: A Comparative Analysis in the Long Run (from the Early Middle Ages Until Today)
Guido Alfani

3. Spiritual Kinship in an Age of Dissent: Pigeon Fanciers in Darwin’s England
Gillian Feeley-Harnik

4. Kinship as Ethical Relation: A Critique of the Spiritual Kinship Paradigm
Don Seeman

5. Kinship in Historical Consciousness: A French Jewish Perspective
Joëlle Bahloul

6. “We All Ask Together”: Intercession and Composition as Models for Spiritual Kinship
Frederick Klaits

7. “Forever Families”; Christian Individualism, Mormonism and Collective Salvation
Fenella Cannell

8. Substance, Spirit, and Sociality Among Shi‘i Muslims in Iran
Rose Wellman

9. Expanding Familial Ties: From the Umma to New Constructions of Relatedness Among East African Indians in Canada
Asiya Malik

10. Rebuking the Ethnic Frame: Afro Caribbean and African American Evangelicals and Spiritual Kinship
Todne Thomas

11. The Seeds of Kinship Theory in the Abrahamic Religions
Carol Delaney

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion