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Gallagher, S., Tierney, W. (2016). Religion/Spirituality. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_488-2

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