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Crossbreeding Atheism with Spirituality: Notes on Soviet and Western Attempts Cover

Crossbreeding Atheism with Spirituality: Notes on Soviet and Western Attempts

By: Atko Remmel and  Mikko Sillfors  
Open Access
|Oct 2018

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.94 | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
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Submitted on: Aug 19, 2017
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