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This chapter adopts a comparative perspective on how spiritual kinship ties are mediated by forms of asking in a Pentecostal Christian congregation in suburban Buffalo, New York, and an Apostolic congregation in Gaborone, Botswana. Klaits explores how practices of asking for God’s help play important roles in the generation of persons in Christian communities. In focusing on asking, Klaits argues that speech about spiritual kinship is apt to reflect concerns both about the ontological and affective bases of relatedness and about securing means of social reproduction.
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Klaits, F. (2017). “We All Ask Together”: Intercession and Composition as Models for Spiritual Kinship. In: Thomas, T., Malik, A., Wellman, R. (eds) New Directions in Spiritual Kinship. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48423-5_6
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