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The Arbiters of Faith: Legislative Assembly of BC Entanglement with Religious Dogma Resulting from Legislative Prayer

Secularism and Nonreligion
Volume 9 (2020): Issue 0
By: Ian Bushfield and  Teale N. Phelps Bondaroff  
Open Access
|Sep 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.140 | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
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Submitted on: Apr 24, 2020
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