Carrying the cross, caring for kin: The everyday life of charismatic christianity in remote aboriginal australia

Oceania

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-77

  Schwarz, Carolyn ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Charismatic christianity; Contemporary aboriginal australia; Personhood; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951493107     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2010.tb00071.x     Document Type: Article

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