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Into the Arms of Dr Who: Implicit Religion and a Cowboy’s Redemption

Issue: Vol 18 No. 4 (2015)

Journal: Implicit Religion

Subject Areas: Religious Studies

DOI: 10.1558/imre.v18i4.29093

Abstract:

How Doctor Who rescued me from childhood neurosis and the part a blue plastic water pistol with orange fins played in my voyage of redemption.

Author: William Keenan

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