Toward a spiritual praxis: The role of spirituality among faculty of color teaching for social justice

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-512

  Shahjahan, Riyad Ahmed ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77954756696     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: 10907009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.0.0166     Document Type: Article

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