Spirituality, positive purpose, wisdom, and positive development in adolescence: Comments on Oman, Flinders, and Thoresen's ideas about "integrating spiritual modeling into education"

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-118

  Lerner, Richard M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 46249105732     PISSN: 10508619     EISSN: 15327582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10508610701879340     Document Type: Article

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