Education and religion: Individual, congregational, and cross-level interaction effects on biblical literalism

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1478-1493

  Stroope, Samuel ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Congregations; Culture; Education; Organizations; Religion; Social networks; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053203084     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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