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The Evolution of American Airport Chapels: Local Negotiations in Religiously Pluralistic Contexts 美国机场教堂的演变:宗教多元化背景下的地方谈判

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2018.28.1.135

Wendy Cadge

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Fortune Telling and American Religious Freedom 算命与美国宗教自由

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2018.28.2.269

Charles McCrary

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IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2018.28.2.307

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The Historyless Heathen and the Stagnating Pagan: History as Non-Native Category? 无历史的异教徒与停滞不前的异教徒:作为非本土范畴的历史?

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2018.28.1.52

K. Lum

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The World Day of Prayer: Ecumenical Churchwomen and Christian Cosmopolitanism, 1920–1946 世界祈祷日:普世教会妇女和基督教世界主义，1920-1946

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.2.129

G. Kenny

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Constructing a Plan for Survival: Scientology as Cold War Psychology 构建生存计划:冷战时期的山达基心理学

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.2.159

R. Genter

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“If There Were One People”: Francis Weninger and the Segregation of American Catholicism 《如果只有一个民族》:弗朗西斯·温宁格与美国天主教的种族隔离

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.2.218

David Komline

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RAC volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter RAC第27卷第1期封面和封面问题

IF 0.4 3区哲学

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1052115100001604

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RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.2.247

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RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.1.128

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