Oppositional consciousness among the privileged: Remaking religion in the Central America solidarity movement

Critical Sociology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 661-688

  Nepstad, Sharon Erickson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central America; Free spaces; Moral shocks; Oppositional consciousness; Religion; Solidarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548526135     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156916307X210982     Document Type: Article

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