Prayer and Health

Spirit, Science, and Health: How the Spiritual Mind Fuels Physical Wellness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 11-24

  Masters, Kevin S ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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