Kindred spirits : friendship and resistance at the edges of modern Catholicism / Brenna Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Brenna, author.

Series:

Class 200. New studies in religion.

Chicago scholarship online.

Class 200. New studies in religion

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Friendship.

Catholic intellectuals.

Catholics--Intellectual life--20th century.

Catholics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Kindred Spirits' takes us inside a network of Catholic historians, theologians, poets, and activists who pushed against both the far-right surge in interwar Europe and the secularizing tendencies of the leftist movements active in the early to mid-twentieth century. With meticulous attention to the complexity of real lives, Brenna Moore explores how this group sought a middle way anchored in 'spiritual friendship' - religiously meaningful friendship understood as uniquely capable of facing social and political challenges. For this group, spiritual friendship was inseparable from resistance to European xenophobia and nationalism, anti-racist activism in the United States, and solidarity with Muslims during the Algerian War. Friendship, they believed, was a key to both divine and human realms, a means of accessing the transcendent while also engaging with our social and political existence.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Spiritual Friendship as an Alternative Catholic Modernity

1. Between Latin America and Europe: Gabriela Mistral and the Maritains

2. "Luminous Spiritual Traces" to Islam: The Passionate Friendships of Louis Massignon

3. Marie-Magdeleine Davy and the Hermeneutic of Friendship in Resistance to Nazism

4. The Intimacy and Resilience of Invisible Friendship: Marie-Magdeleine Davy and Simone Weil

5. Friendship and the Black Catholic Internationalism of Claude McKay

Epilogue: Kindred Spirits as Fragments of Modernity

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2021).

ISBN:

9780226787152

022678715X

OCLC:

1252426191