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Disaffiliation from the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the Nordic Countries: Mistrust in the Churches, Changing Worldviews, or Something else? Cover

Disaffiliation from the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the Nordic Countries: Mistrust in the Churches, Changing Worldviews, or Something else?

Secularism and Nonreligion
Volume 13 (2024): Issue 1
By: Carlos Miguel Lemos  
Open Access
|Jun 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.166 | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
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Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 20, 2022
Accepted on: Apr 18, 2024
Published on: Jun 26, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Secularization,
Nordic countries,
Religious disaffiliation,
Multiple comparisons,
Logistic regression

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