Freedom in chains: Religion as enabler and constraint in the lives of gay male anglican clergy

Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-181

  Keenan, Michael ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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