Religious thought and behaviour as by-products of brain function
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- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Vol. 7 (3), 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613(03)00031-7
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