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Attachment and religious representations and behavior

@inproceedings{Granqvist2008AttachmentAR,
  title={Attachment and religious representations and behavior},
  author={Pehr Granqvist and Lee A. Kirkpatrick},
  year={2008}
}
This chapter is divided into five major sections. In the first, we argue that people’s perceived relationships with God meet the defining criteria of attachment relationships reasonably well, and h ... 
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