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Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism

Secularism and Nonreligion
Volume 10 (2021): Issue 1
By: Ryan Cragun,  Kevin McCaffree,  Ivan Puga-Gonzalez,  Wesley Wildman and  F. LeRon Shults  
Open Access
|Mar 2021

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