Making a place to take a stand: Jonathan Z. Smith and the politics and poetics of comparison

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 339-378

  Urban, Hugh B ^a  

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EID: 0011532788     PISSN: 09433058     EISSN: 15700682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157006800x00247     Document Type: Article

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