Playing language games and performing rituals: Religious studies as ideological state apparatus

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 209-254

  Fitzgerald, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33751196159     PISSN: 09433058     EISSN: 15700682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157006803322393378     Document Type: Article

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