Transcendentalist intransigence: Why rulers rejected monotheism in early modern Southeast Asia and beyond

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 358-383

  Strathern, Alan ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL TRADITION; RELIGION;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 34047218730     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417507000527     Document Type: Article

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