Suffering, vice, and justice: Religious imaginaries and welfare agencies in post-war Melbourne

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-304

  Murphy, John ^a,b  

^a School of Historical Studies

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 57749165491     PISSN: 00224227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2007.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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1. For their help in readings drafts of this paper (without incurring any responsibility for its contents) I am grateful to Michael Challen, Peter Hollingworth, John Honner, Brian Porter, and Muriel Porter, and also the Journal of Religious History's anonymous referees. The larger project from which this article derives has been supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant (DP0343854).
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