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Religious Motivations

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Religion is also a contested term. One definition presents it as a social system of particular behaviors, values, worldviews, scriptures, sacred places, predictions, morals, or groups; such social system connects all these human practices to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Matusitz, J. (2020). Religious Motivations. In: Global Jihad in Muslim and non-Muslim Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47044-9_6

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