Powerful pictures: Popular Christian aesthetics in Southern Ghana

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-110

  Meyer, Birgit ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 57749142630     PISSN: 00027189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfm092     Document Type: Article

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