Brenna Moore Kindred Spirits Hardcover sku-689247751

Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism by Brenna Moore is an Edition 1 hardcover in Class 200: New Studies in Religion. Listed under Christian Books & Bibles as SKU sku-689247751, it follows a network of Catholic historians, theologians, poets and activists who pushed against the far-right surge in interwar Europe and the secularizing tendencies of leftist movements in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Moore explores the complexity of their lives and their idea of "spiritual friendship": religiously meaningful friendship they believed could help them face social and political challenges. They saw friendship as a way to access the transcendent while engaging with social and political life.

Their friendships were bound up with resistance to European xenophobia and nationalism, anti-racist activism in the United States, and solidarity with Muslims during the Algerian War. The group includes philosopher Jacques Maritain, Nobel Prize laureate Gabriela Mistral, Islamicist Louis Massignon and Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay, alongside others the book argues have been unfairly forgotten.

Moore examines the group's flaws as well as its strengths.