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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 quotations, 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 鈥淪pirits and the Spirit of Capitalism鈥� by Jane Schneider, 鈥淭he Priest and His People: The Contractual Basis for Religious Practice in Rural Portugal鈥� by Caroline B. Brettell, 鈥淭he Struggle for the Church: Popular Anticlericalism and Religiosity in Post-Franco Spain鈥� by Ruth Behar, 鈥淧ilgrimage and Popular Religion at a Greek Holy Shrine鈥� by Jill Dubisch, 鈥淏reton Folklore of Anticlericalism鈥� by Ellen Badone, 鈥淪tories of Power, Powerful Stories: The Drunken Priest in Donegal鈥� by Lawrence J. Taylor, and 鈥淩eflections on the Study of Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in Europe鈥� by Stanley Brandes.