The spiritual revolution and the new age gender puzzle the sacralization of the self in late modernity (1980-2000)

Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 99-118

  Houtman, Dick ^a,b   Aupers, Stef ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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