Brenna Moore is associate professor of theology at Fordham University. She is the author of Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival.

"Scholars of religion will benefit immensely from thinking with Kindred Spirits for its epistemological implications and they will see the twentieth century with new eyes because of its historiographical interventions. . . . In Moore’s hands, spiritual friendship has implications for how we think of gender, race, ideas, and colonialism in the context of the modern."

• Introduction    Spiritual Friendship as an Alternative Catholic ModernityChapter 1        Between Latin America and Europe: Gabriela Mistral and the MaritainsChapter 2        “Luminous Spiritual Traces” to Islam: The Passionate Friendships of Louis MassignonChapter 3        Marie-Magdeleine Davy and the Hermeneutic of Friendship in Resistance to NazismChapter 4        The Intimacy and Resilience of Invisible Friendship: Marie-Magdeleine Davy and Simone WeilChapter 5        Friendship and the Black Catholic Internationalism of Claude McKayEpilogue          Kindred Spirits as Fragments of ModernityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Brenna Moore is associate professor of theology at Fordham University. She is the author of Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival.

"Scholars of religion will benefit immensely from thinking with Kindred Spirits for its epistemological implications and they will see the twentieth century with new eyes because of its historiographical interventions. . . . In Moore’s hands, spiritual friendship has implications for how we think of gender, race, ideas, and colonialism in the context of the modern."

• Introduction    Spiritual Friendship as an Alternative Catholic ModernityChapter 1        Between Latin America and Europe: Gabriela Mistral and the MaritainsChapter 2        “Luminous Spiritual Traces” to Islam: The Passionate Friendships of Louis MassignonChapter 3        Marie-Magdeleine Davy and the Hermeneutic of Friendship in Resistance to NazismChapter 4        The Intimacy and Resilience of Invisible Friendship: Marie-Magdeleine Davy and Simone WeilChapter 5        Friendship and the Black Catholic Internationalism of Claude McKayEpilogue          Kindred Spirits as Fragments of ModernityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Brenna Moore is associate professor of theology at Fordham University. She is the author of Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival.

"Scholars of religion will benefit immensely from thinking with Kindred Spirits for its epistemological implications and they will see the twentieth century with new eyes because of its historiographical interventions. . . . In Moore’s hands, spiritual friendship has implications for how we think of gender, race, ideas, and colonialism in the context of the modern."

• Introduction    Spiritual Friendship as an Alternative Catholic ModernityChapter 1        Between Latin America and Europe: Gabriela Mistral and the MaritainsChapter 2        “Luminous Spiritual Traces” to Islam: The Passionate Friendships of Louis MassignonChapter 3        Marie-Magdeleine Davy and the Hermeneutic of Friendship in Resistance to NazismChapter 4        The Intimacy and Resilience of Invisible Friendship: Marie-Magdeleine Davy and Simone WeilChapter 5        Friendship and the Black Catholic Internationalism of Claude McKayEpilogue          Kindred Spirits as Fragments of ModernityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex