Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Overviews -- The Sexual Division of Labour in the Mediterranean -- Rams and Billy-Goats: A Key to the Mediterranean Code of Honour -- Case Studies -- Religious Brotherhoods: Class and Politics in an Andalusian Town -- Popular Anti-Clericalism and Religiosity in pre- 1974 Portugal -- Mafia Burlesque: The Profane Mass as a Peacemaking Ritual -- 'Civil Religion' or 'Civil War'? Religion in Israel -- Ritual Escalation in Malta -- The Kappillani: The Changing Position of the Parish Priest in Malta -- Christian-Democrat Ideology in the Cold War Period -- Religious Apparitions and the Cold War in Southern Europe -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Geographical Names.

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.