The Encyclopedic Impulse in Religious Studies
It is no mere coincidence that the ongoing revolution in information technology has coincided with an explosive increase of reference works, not the least in religious studies and biblical studies. The unprecedented production rate of such works today led one scholar to dub our times “a golden age o...
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2015]
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Relegere
Year: 2015, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-166 |
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Reference Works
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