The wrath of the gods: Appraising the meaning of disaster

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Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-204

  Grandjean, Didier ^a   Rendu, Anne Caroline ^a   MacNamee, Terence ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Disaster; God and gods; Meanings; Myth

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449088193     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018408089078     Document Type: Article

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