Atheists: A psychological profile

The Cambridge Companion to Atheism

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 300-318

  Beit Hallahmi, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521842700.019     Document Type: Chapter

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