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Chaudhary, Y. Delegating Religious Practices to Autonomous Machines, A Reply to “Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda”. Minds & Machines 29, 341–347 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-019-09499-2
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