Dilemmas of language in immigrant congregations: The tie that binds or the tower of babel?

Review of Religious Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 432-452

  Ebaugh, Helen Rose ^a   Chafetz, Janet Saltzman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3512314     Document Type: Article

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