Mircea Eliade, Michael Jackson, and the Normalization of Psychopathology
Issue: Vol 22 No. 1 (2019)
Journal: Implicit Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies
DOI: 10.1558/imre.40100
Abstract:
How do we deal with the (to say the least) problematic history of our acadeic superstars?
Author: Leonardo Ambasciano
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