Religious fundamentalism: An empirically derived construct and measurement scale

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 299-323

  Liht, José ^a   Conway, Lucian Gideon ^b   Savage, Sara ^a   White, Weston ^b   O'Neill, Katherine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural psychology; fundamentalism; integrative complexity; Mexico; psychology of religion; psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155177131     PISSN: 00846724     EISSN: 15736121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157361211X594159     Document Type: Article

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