"God made beautiful things": Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-312

  Adely, Fida ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860699327     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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