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If it looks like religion, smells like religion and tastes like religion, is it religion?: A study into why people bring their infant child to baptism when they do not attend Church.

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If it looks like religion, smells like religion and tastes like religion, is it religion? A study into why people bring their infant child to baptism when they do not attend Church. / Bunday, Richard.
Lancaster University, 2020. 124 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

Harvard

Bunday, R 2020, 'If it looks like religion, smells like religion and tastes like religion, is it religion? A study into why people bring their infant child to baptism when they do not attend Church.', PhD, Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1143

APA

Bunday, R. (2020). If it looks like religion, smells like religion and tastes like religion, is it religion? A study into why people bring their infant child to baptism when they do not attend Church. [Doctoral Thesis, Lancaster University]. Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1143

Vancouver

Bunday R. If it looks like religion, smells like religion and tastes like religion, is it religion? A study into why people bring their infant child to baptism when they do not attend Church.. Lancaster University, 2020. 124 p. doi: 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1143

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Bunday, Richard. / If it looks like religion, smells like religion and tastes like religion, is it religion? A study into why people bring their infant child to baptism when they do not attend Church.. Lancaster University, 2020. 124 p.

Bibtex

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RIS

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