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Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online

By: Tim Hutchings  
Open Access
|Aug 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.105 | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 18, 2018
Accepted on: Jul 31, 2019
Published on: Aug 19, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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