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  1. Department of Religions, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria

    Danoye Oguntola-Laguda

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  1. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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Oguntola-Laguda, D. (2020). African Traditional Religion. In: Leeming, D.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24348-7_9120

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