Religion, politics, and globalization: The long past foregrounding the short present-prologue and introduction

Religion, Politics, and Globalization: Anthropological Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-66

  Handelman, Don ^a,b   Lindquist, Galina ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Israel)

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