Where Saints Show Respect

Name: Where Saints Show Respect
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Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power

By: Berardino Palumbo

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Hardcover | 1 February 2026

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22.9 x 15.2

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Where Saints Show Respect reveals the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. Instead of focusing on sensational criminality, this study considers rituals through which local society learns deep respect - sometimes fearful, but often playful or pious - for those values and their enforcers. State and Church misconstrue these values as vestiges of a society morally damned and left behind in a pagan past. This study draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore a strikingly different Sicily from the self-congratulatory version of government and religious leaders, where a seemingly obscure set of rural practices offers a critical perspective on modernity itself.

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