The anthropology of secularism

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2010, Pages 85-100

  Cannell, Fenella ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; modernity; religion; spirituality

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIANITY; HINDUISM; ISLAMISM; MODERNITY; RELIGION;

EID: 77958013496     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105039     Document Type: Article

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