New Directions in Spiritual Kinship : Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions
This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship-or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine-in 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 lig...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Series | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9783319484235 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-48423-5 |
| Physical Description | XXI, 273 p. 3 illus. online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Darwin's 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 Shi'i 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.