Upper class asceticism: Social origins of ascetic movements and medieval saints

Review of Religious Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-19

  Stark, Rodney ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3512496     Document Type: Article

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