How to think about mass religious conversion: Toward an explanation of the conversion of American Jews to Christianity

Contemporary Jewry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 76-129

  Klausner, Samuel Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 33846705746     PISSN: 01471694     EISSN: 18765165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02965481     Document Type: Article

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