{"product_id":"kindred-spirits-brenna-moore-9780226787015","title":"Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKindred Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e takes us inside a remarkable 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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. Some of the figures are still well known--philosopher Jacques Maritain, Nobel Prize laureate Gabriela Mistral, influential Islamicist Louis Massignon, poet of the Harlem renaissance Claude McKay--while others have unjustly faded from memory. Much more than an idealized portrait of a remarkable group of Catholic intellectuals from the past, \u003ci\u003eKindred Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling exploration of both the beauty and flaws of a vibrant social network worth remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenna Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022678701X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226787015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Brenna Moore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986574541055,"sku":"9780226787015","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36e3f292-1825-4049-8807-c8dde4f73371.jpg?v=1683284157","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kindred-spirits-brenna-moore-9780226787015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}