What is the causal relationship between death anxiety and religious belief?

The virtues of Hilbert’s mathematical problems - or, at least, the best of them - were that they were simply and unambiguously stated, enticingly difficult, and generated yet more advances in mathematics than just the solution of the problems themselves. In the spirit of Hilbert, albeit in empirical...

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Authors: Jong, Jonathan (Author) ; Halberstadt, Jamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 296-298
Further subjects:B Fear of death
B Religion
B Death Anxiety
B Religiosity
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