Spirituality, Religion, and Health: What’s the Deal?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-10

  Thoresen, Carl E ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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