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- ↑ Gorski, Philip S. “The Protestant Ethic Revisited: Disciplinary Revolution and State Formation in Holland and Prussia.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 2, 1993, pp. [265–316], 281, 282, 291, 298-301, JSTOR
- ↑ Cummings, Mike, Yale sociologist Phil Gorski on the threat of white Christian nationalism , Yale News, March 15, 2022, with an extensive interview
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