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Seeing is Believing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ in Britain Cover

Seeing is Believing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ in Britain

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|Mar 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.162 | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 4, 2022
Accepted on: Jan 30, 2023
Published on: Mar 2, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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