Sources of Adolescent Faith: Examining the Origins of Religious Confidence

Although proponents of the religious economies paradigm have regularly asserted the importance of the problem of religious confidence, they have put little effort into examining it theoretically and empirically. This article rectifies this shortcoming by explaining how and why specific aspects of pa...

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Main Author: Abel, Michael K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2011]
In: Interdisciplinary journal of research on religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 7, Pages: 1-26
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