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Book symposium: Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: An Existential Psychology of Religion By Jonathan Jong and Jamin Halberstadt

Why are people religious? Death anxiety and alternative explanations

Pages 190-194 | Received 24 May 2017, Accepted 25 May 2017, Published online: 08 Feb 2018

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