Introduction.- Chapter 1 Religion and society are institutional.- Chapter 2 Mediating institutions between religion and the workplace.- Chapter 3 Mediating institutions in residential communities in the Thames Gateway.- Chapter 4 Some more mediating institutions in residential communities.- Chapter 5 Mediating institutions between religion and civil society.- Chapter 6 Mediating institutions - a task for the Church.- Chapter 7 Signposts towards the City of God.- Postscript.- Appendix: Relationships and sexuality.