Empowering the Weak and Protecting the Powerful: The Contradictory Nature of Churches in Central Africa

African Studies Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-72

  Longman, Timothy P ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 85011492179     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/524681     Document Type: Article

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