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Contested visions: the social construction of cults and new religions
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
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Contested visions: the social construction of cults and new religions
Principal investigators: Cowan, Douglas E.
Keywords: cults; new religions; religious controversy; religion and media; religion and culture; sociology of knowledge; social psychology of religion
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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