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The Difficulty with Doctrine: How Religion Can Influence Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2015

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Anna Grzymala-Busse is Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and Eurasian Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Contact email: [email protected].

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