The problematic synergy between evangelicals and the U.S. state in sub-Saharan Africa

Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-182

  Gerhardt, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

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