Religious involution: Sacred and secular conflict among Sephardic Jews in Australia

Ethnology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 321-333

  Gale, Naomi ^a  

^a ASHKELON ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Limitations of functional analysis; Religion as a divisive and dysfunctional force

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644261717     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3774041     Document Type: Article

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