The Rise of a Global God-Image? Spiritual internationalists, the international left and the idea of human progress.
For a period that endured so long it came to seem coextensive with Western modernity, durable barriers stood between those who sought political liberation and those who sought spiritual liberation. We are now emerging from that period. The barriers never operated in the same way or to the same exten...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 205 - 226 |
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Feb2009
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