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 and Spiritual Kinship -- 11. The Seeds of Kinship Theory in the Abrahamic Religions.