Measuring Religious Attitudes in Secularized Western European Context: A Psychometric Analysis of the Post-Critical Belief Scale

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 263-281

  Krysinska, Karolina ^a   De Roover, Kim ^a   Bouwens, Jan ^a   Ceulemans, Eva ^a   Corveleyn, Jozef ^a   Dezutter, Jessie ^a   Duriez, Bart ^a   Hutsebaut, Dirk ^a   Pollefeyt, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84914146527     PISSN: 10508619     EISSN: 15327582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2013.879429     Document Type: Article

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