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Jeffrey S. Levin, Robert Joseph Taylor, Panel Analyses of Religious Involvement and Well-Being in African Americans: Contemporaneous vs. Longitudinal Effects, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 695-709
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