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Review Essay: Past Practices—Ethnography and American Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2018

Courtney Bender
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Religion and American Culture , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 2011 , pp. 259 - 276
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture 2011

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2. Ibid., 223–24.

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11. Ibid., 230.

12. Ibid., 1–2, italics added.

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