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RELIGION AS THE CARNIVAL OF THE SECULAR: HISTORICIZING THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS - Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion. By Robert A. Yelle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $100.00 (cloth); $32.50 (paper); $32.50 (digital). ISBN: 9780226585451.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2021
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