''Christ is the answer': What is the question?' A Ghana Airways prayer vigil and its implications for religion, evil and public space

Journal of Religion in Africa

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-117

  Asamoah Gyadu, J Kwabena ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33845534681     PISSN: 00224200     EISSN: 15700666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1570066052995834     Document Type: Article

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