Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time

American Ethnologist

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 409-421

  Guyer, Jane I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evangelism; Events; Future; Macroeconomics; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547123338     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2007.34.3.409     Document Type: Article

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