Conventional christian beliefs and experimentation with the paranormal

Review of Religious Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-205

  Mencken, F Carson ^a   Bader, Christopher D ^a   Stark, Rodney ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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