Multiple Modernities: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in a Globalizing Age

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue , 1998, Pages 83-104

  Hefner, Robert W ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion; Globalization; Modernity; Secularization; World religions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002691261     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.83     Document Type: Article

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