Includes bibliographical references and index.

Money, morality, and modes of civil society among American Mormons / Elizabeth Dunn -- How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or : civil society, the media, and the quality of life / Peter Loizos -- Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society : East Germany / Sausanne Spülbeck -- The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland / Michał Buchowski -- Bringing civil society to an uncivilized place : citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier / David G. Anderson -- The social life of projects : importing civil society to Albania / Steven Sampson -- Civic culture and Islam in urban Turkey / Jenny B. White -- Gender, state, and civil society in Jordan and Syria / Annika Rabo -- The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia : assessment of an authentic solution / Leo Schmit -- Community values and state cooptation : civil society in the Sichuan countryside / John Flower and Pamela Leonard -- Making citizens in postwar Japan : national and local perspectives / John Knight.