Comparing prayer: On science, universals, and the human condition

Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 113-139

  Geertz, Armin W ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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