Research note: Religious affiliation and poverty explanations: Individual, structural, and divine causes

Sociological Focus

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 226-237

  Brimeyer, Ted M ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69849119623     PISSN: 00380237     EISSN: 21621128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2008.10571332     Document Type: Article

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