Compadrazgo bonds of total mutual aid crossed the religious divide

Evidence

If one man became linked with another in this way, it was accepted that the two compadres would in normal circumstances afford each other total and unconditional help and assistance. It is interesting to note that in 1568 such bonding across the religious divide must sometimes have taken place. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1013

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains compadrazgo, an anthropologically-studied fictive-kinship bond whose dissolving marked the depth of civil breakdown.
• QUESTION: What exactly was the compadrazgo bond Cross-culturally, and what did ritual compadre-formation look like in 16th-century Andalusian villages — worth pulling the anthropology literature.