A contemporary religious political movement: LDS Church’s nation-wide political campaigns
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عنوان ژورنال: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1428-9512
DOI: 10.17951/k.2016.23.1.147