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fictive kin |
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fictive kin [fik′tiv] people who are regarded as being part of a family even though they are not related by either blood or marriage bonds. Fictive kinship may bind people together in ties of affection, concern, obligation, and responsibility. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Malina rightly understands that Jesus' preaching of the kingdom must have economic and political repercussions, and he rightly perceives that the kingdom of God must be a face-to-face fictive kinship or collective social relationship. Indeed, atrocity reports did much to help forge the bonds of fictive kinship with innocent victims, while rationalizing and exacerbating a visceral hatred growing up towards ethnic Germans, often of long-standing acquaintance. This type of fictive kinship was and is very common in traditional Mediterranean societies because of the centrality of the family in them. |
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