Anti-modernism, modernism, and postmodernism: struggling with the cultural significance of new religious movements

Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-156

  Dawson, Lome L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.2307/3712077     Document Type: Article

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