The new agents: Personal transfiguration and radical privatization in new age self-help

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-52

  Redden, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumerism; Countercultures; New social movements; Religion; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444443576     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146954050200200102     Document Type: Article

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