Does belonging accompany believing? Correlations and trends in Western Europe and North America between 1981 and 2000

Review of Religious Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-34

  Aarts, Olav ^a   Need, Ariana ^a   Te Grotenhuis, Manfred ^a   De Graaf, Nan Dirk ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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