This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinshipor kinship reckoned in relation to the divinein creating myriad forms of affiliations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Rather than confining the study of spiritual kinship to Christian godparenthood or presuming its disappearance in light of secularism, the authors investigate how religious practitioners create and contest sacred solidarities through ritual, discursive, and ethical practices across social domains, networks, and transnational collectives. This books theoretical conversations and rich case studies hold value for scholars of anthropology, kinship, and religion.
1. Introduction: Re-Sacralizing the Social: Spiritual Kinship at the Crossroads of the Abrahamic Religions
2. Spiritual Kinship Between Formal Norms and Actual Practice a Comparative Analysis in the Long Run (from the Early Middle Ages until Today)
3. The Religion and Science of Kinship in an Age of Dissent: Pigeon-Breeders in Darwins London
4. Kinship as Ethical Relation: An Alternative to the Spiritual Kinship Paradigm
5. Kinship in Historical Consciousness: A French Jewish Perspective
6. We All Ask Together : Intercession and Composition as Models for Spiritual Kinship
7. Forever Families : Christian Individualism, Mormonism and Collective Salvation
8. Substance, Spirit, and Sociality among Shii Muslims in Iran
9. Expanding Familial Ties: From the Umma to New Constructions of Relatedness among East African Indians in Canada
10. Rebuking the Ethnic Frame: West Indian and African American Evangelicals and Spiritual Kinship
11. The Seeds of Kinship Theory in the Abrahamic Religions
Todne Thomas is Assistant Professor of Religion at the Universl³’
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