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Religious concepts of ‘world’: Comparative metaphysical perspectives

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  1. This paper was first presented to the Ecopolitics IV Conference, University of Adelaide, South Australia, in September 1989 and to the conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion, Perth, Western Australia, September 1989, under the title‘World’ in World Religions: metaphysical perspectives on physical reality.

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Pratt, D. Religious concepts of ‘world’: Comparative metaphysical perspectives. SOPH 31, 74–88 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02772489

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