New Directions in Spiritual Kinship : Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomas, Todne (Editor), Malik, Asiya (Editor), Wellman, Rose (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion and sociology.; Ethnology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

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 lig...