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* {{cite conference |title=The Ways of Our Fathers as to the Age of Communicants: Confirmation and the Age of First Communion |last1=Warnke |first1=Harold E. |year=1971 |conference=Northern Wisconsin District Pastoral Conference at Marinette, Wisconsin on October 25–26, 1971 |url=http://essays.wisluthsem.org:8080/bitstream/handle/123456789/605/WarnkeAge.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |via=essays.wisluthsem.org}}

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* {{cite journal|title=Chinese Conversion to Evangelical Christianity: The Importance of Social and Cultural Contexts|date=20 January 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|last1=Yang|first1=Fenggang|journal=Sociology of Religion|volume=59|issue=3 |pages=237–257 |jstor=3711910 |doi=10.2307/3711910}}

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* {{cite book|author1-last=Zurlo|author1-first=Gina A. |editor1-last=Ross |editor1-first=Kenneth R. |editor2-last=Alvarez |editor2-first=Francis D. |editor3-last=Johnson |editor3-first=Todd M. |title=Christianity in East and Southeast Asia |date=2020 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press|chapter=1 A Demographic Profile of Christianity in East and Southeast Asia |isbn=978-1-4744-5162-8 |edition=illustrated}}

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