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Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia

Secularism and Nonreligion
Volume 10 (2021): Issue 1
By: Carlos Lemos and  Ivan Puga-Gonzalez  
Open Access
|Jun 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.143 | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
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Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 14, 2020
Accepted on: Apr 20, 2021
Published on: Jun 2, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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Keywords:
Belief in God,
Confidence in Churches,
Religious Socialization,
Secularization,
Scandinavian countries,
Multinomial logistic regression

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