Talk:Sociology of Religion
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The Religious Conversion chapter should include a discussion of cognitive dissonance as found in Batons, Schoenrade, and Ventis (1993); especially how people, when faced with evidence against their beliefs don't actually change them but grow stronger in their beliefs.
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