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Original Articles

Roman Catholicism, Secularization and the Recovery of Traditional Communal Values: The 1998 and 2007 Referenda on Abortion in Portugal

SOUTH EUROPEAN ATLAS

Pages 117-129 | Published online: 02 Dec 2009

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