New Directions in Spiritual Kinship
Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions
Editors: Thomas, Todne, Malik, Asiya, Wellman, Rose E. (Eds.)
Free Preview- The first volume specifically dedicated to the comparative study of “spiritual” or “sacred” kinship
- Ethnographically explores the diverse manifestations of sacred kinship and articulates the significance of these manifestations to increase our understanding of the architecture of human societies
- Brings together recent advances in the anthropological study of kinship and the religious study of the sacred to produce a highly innovative, fruitful investigation of the dimensions of possible intersections between kinship and the sacred
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- About this book
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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 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 book’s theoretical conversations and rich case studies hold value for scholars of anthropology, kinship, and religion.
- About the authors
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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.
- Reviews
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“This is an impressive collection that sets out a vital new approach to the study of the intersection between religion and kinship. Moving far beyond longstanding discussions of godparenthood to consider the many diverse ways the sacred shapes notions of relatedness both between persons and between people and the divine across the Abrahamic traditions, the volume breaks new ground in several fields and will interest a wide range of scholars in the social sciences and humanities.” (Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK)
“This work is a fresh, timely, and original intervention; a series of rich essays which deftly show the intrinsic connections between kinship and religion. At the same time, it offers a productive framework for comparing the quarrelsome family of traditions descended from ‘father’ Abraham.” (Michael Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Re-sacralizing the Social: Spiritual Kinship at the Crossroads of the Abrahamic Religions
Pages 1-28
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Spiritual Kinship Between Formal Norms and Actual Practice: A Comparative Analysis in the Long Run (from the Early Middle Ages Until Today)
Pages 29-49
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Spiritual Kinship in an Age of Dissent: Pigeon Fanciers in Darwin’s England
Pages 51-83
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Kinship as Ethical Relation: A Critique of the Spiritual Kinship Paradigm
Pages 85-108
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Kinship in Historical Consciousness: A French Jewish Perspective
Pages 109-129
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- New Directions in Spiritual Kinship
- Book Subtitle
- Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions
- Editors
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- Todne Thomas
- Asiya Malik
- Rose E. Wellman
- Series Title
- Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-48423-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-48423-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-48422-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-83939-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 273
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
