Status, religion, and the "belief in a just world": Comparing African Americans, Latinos, and whites

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 325-343

  Hunt, Matthew O ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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