Cybergnosis: Technology, religion, and the secular

Religion: Beyond a Concept

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 687-703

  Aupers, Stef ^a,b   Houtman, Dick ^a,b   Pels, Peter ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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