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- ↑ Riches, Tanya (2015). "Dreaming Urban Indigenous Australian Christian Worship in the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit". In Ingalls, Monique M.; Yong, Amos (eds.). The Spirit of Praise: Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Penn State Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780292709898.
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