Believing, bonding, behaving, and belonging: The big four religious dimensions and cultural variation

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1320-1340

  Saroglou, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cultural influences; religious differences; religious dimensions; religious universals; spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053641679     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111412267     Document Type: Article

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