Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions in Spiritual Kinship
Book Subtitle: Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions
Editors: Todne Thomas, Asiya Malik, Rose Wellman
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48423-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48422-8Published: 25 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83939-4Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48423-5Published: 17 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 273
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion