Sacred archipelagos: Geographies of secularization

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 328-348

  Wilford, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Geography of religion; Postsecular; Scale; Secularization

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; MODERNITY; RELIGION; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77953710240     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132509348558     Document Type: Article

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