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Mullet, E., Neto, F. (2016). Forgiveness and Religious Tradition. In: Leeming, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27771-9_9365-1

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