Atheism and the apotheosis of agency

Temenos

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 7-41

  Saler, Benson ^a   Ziegler, Charles A ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atheism; Biological factors; Cognition; Justin L. Barrett; Theism; William S. Bainbridge

Indexed keywords

EID: 60950208065     PISSN: 04971817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33356/temenos.4628     Document Type: Article

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