The dialectics of belief and practice: Religious process as praxis

Critical Sociology

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 187-211

  Wright, Bonnie ^a   Rawls, Anne Warfield ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Durkheim; Ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Flow; Interaction orders; Marx; Pentecostal; Practices; Religion; Speaking in tongues; Taken for granted; Worship

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244458861     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1569163053084298     Document Type: Review

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