New Directions in Spiritual Kinship

Todne Thomas is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont, USA. Asiya Malik is an anthropologist and independent researcher in Canada.Rose Wellman is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, USA.

• 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 andSpiritual Kinship.- 11. The Seeds of Kinship Theory in the Abrahamic Religions.