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2 - Divinity in children'smoral development: an Indian perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Lene Arnett Jensen
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Clark University, Massachusetts
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Moral Development in a Global World
Research from a Cultural-Developmental Perspective
, pp. 20 - 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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