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By examining the ongoing tension between popular and official religion in Europe, this collection of essays contributes significantly to the continuing effort to understand the religious experience of ordinary people. Ranging from the Mediterranean to northern Europe and including both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the ethnographic contexts evoked in these essays enable us to see people actively and creatively shaping their religious domain, sometimes in collaboration with official ritual specialists, often in open rebellion against them. The use of folklore texts and extensive narrative "ations, combined with an approach highlighting key symbols such as pilgrimages and festas, provides a common theoretical orientation throughout the bookone that considers how religious discourses are formed by social disciplines and relationships of power and subordination. This volume includes "Spirits and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Jane Schneider, "The Priest and His People: The Contractual Basis for Religious Practice in Rural Portugal" by Caroline B. Brettell, "The Struggle for the Church: Popular Anticlericalism and Religiosity in Post-Franco Spain" by Ruth Behar, "Pilgrimage and Popular Religion at a Greek Holy Shrine" by Jill Dubisch, "Breton Folklore of Anticlericalism" by Ellen Badone, "Stories of Power, Powerful Stories: The Drunken Priest in Donegal" by Lawrence J. Taylor, and "Reflections on the Study of Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in Europe" by Stanley Brandes.

Europe --- Religious life and customs --- Christianity --- Religion --- 20th century --- Religió --- Cristianisme --- Europa. --- Europa --- Vida social i costums --- Vida religiosa. --- Vida social i costums. --- African religion. --- Ancestor worship. --- Asturias, religious beliefs in. --- Belief systems. --- Benedictine Order. --- Bruxo priests. --- Cathars. --- Commensal customs, reciprocity and. --- Delumeau, Jean. --- Deng, Francis Mading. --- Dias, Jorge. --- Disenchantment. --- Dominican Order. --- Doxa. --- Eastern Orthodox Church. --- Edict of Nantes (1685). --- Evil. --- Fires of Saint John. --- Folk religion, defined. --- Foster, George. --- Gender and religion. --- Ginzburg, Carlo. --- Gypsies. --- Hauschild, Thomas. --- Henningsen, Gustav. --- Inquisition. --- Integrist movement. --- Islam. --- Jansenism. --- Jesuits. --- Judaism. --- Klaniczay, Gabor. --- Le Goff, Jacques. --- Levi, Giovanni. --- Liberation theology. --- Luther, Martin. --- Memorates. --- Mendicant orders. --- National Catholicism. --- Normandy, magic in. --- Pentecostalists. --- Pilgrimage. --- Redfield, Robert. --- Saint Anthony, cult of. --- Saint processions. --- Secularization. --- Tylor, Edward B. (Sir). --- Unamuno, Miguel de. --- Vows. --- Waldensians. --- Weber, Max. --- Witch-hunt, as religious reform. --- Agnosticisme --- Animisme --- Apoteosi --- Ascetisme --- Aspectes religiosos --- Associacions religioses --- Ateisme --- Catequesi --- Creença i dubte --- Escepticisme --- Fetitxisme --- Fonamentalisme religiós --- Litúrgia --- Misteris religiosos --- Mite --- Monoteisme --- Moviments nativistes --- Objectes religiosos --- Psicologia de la religió --- Psicologia i religió --- Sagrat --- Sobrenatural --- Vida religiosa --- Déu --- Filosofia de la religió --- Irreligiositat --- Pensament religiós --- Religions --- Estats i territoris --- Euràsia --- Alps --- Camí de Sant Jaume --- Corredor Mediterrani --- Danubi (Europa : Curs d'aigua) --- Europa central --- Europa de l'Est --- Europa del Nord --- Europa del Sud --- Europa occidental --- Països de la Unió Europea --- Rin (Europa : Curs d'aigua) --- Roine (Europa : Curs d'aigua) --- Tràcia (Regió històrica)