Comparative empirical research in religion: Conceptual and operational challenges within empirical theology

Empirical Studies in Theology

Volumn 17, Issue , 2009, Pages 127-152

  Francis, Leslie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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