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Religion over the years has assumed various forms and modifications. The level of technological and scientific knowledge has had tremendous impact on religion. Most forms of religion whether Oriental, Occidental or traditional African, have one common base-Supernaturalism.
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Odiase, G.I. (1984). Membership, Types of Illness and Relationship between the Incidence of Bringing Sick and Disturbed Persons for Healing Among Adherents of an Aladura Church in Benin City, Nigeria. In: Hudolin, V. (eds) Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4535-0_42
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