Chapter 1 Introduction: Re-sacralizing the Social: Spiritual Kinship at the Crossroads of the Abrahamic Religions

Chapter 2 Spiritual Kinship Between Formal Norms and Actual Practice: A Comparative Analysis in the Long Run (from the Early Middle Ages Until Today)

Chapter 3 Spiritual Kinship in an Age of Dissent: Pigeon Fanciers in Darwin’s England

Chapter 4 Kinship as Ethical Relation: A Critique of the Spiritual Kinship Paradigm

Chapter 5 Kinship in Historical Consciousness: A French Jewish Perspective

Chapter 6 “We All Ask Together”: Intercession and Composition as Models for Spiritual Kinship

Chapter 8 Substance, Spirit, and Sociality Among Shi‘i Muslims in Iran

Chapter 9 Expanding Familial Ties: From the Umma to New Constructions of Relatedness Among East African Indians in Canada

Chapter 10 Rebuking the Ethnic Frame: Afro Caribbean and African American Evangelicals and Spiritual Kinship

Chapter 11 The Seeds of Kinship Theory in the Abrahamic Religions