Conjugating the Modern/ Religious, Conceptualizing Female Religious Agency: Contours of a ‘Post-secular’ Conjuncture

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 51-67

  Bracke, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(female) agency; (female) subjectivity; modernity; post secular; secularization theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149113566     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276408095544     Document Type: Article

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