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Ancestor Worship
Animism
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Behaving
Believing
Belonging
Bundling
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Church Attendance
Church-sect Theory
Clubs
Congregations
Contestable Market
Credibility
Cultural Transmission
Economics
Economy of Scale
Economy of Scope
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Evolution of Norms
Exclusion
In-Group Favoritism
Megachurches
Monitoring
Rational Choice
Religion
Religious Capital
Religious Competition
Religious Deregulation
Religious Markets
Religious Merger
Religious Monopoly
Religious Participation
Religious Pluralism
Religious Regulation
Religious Segregation
Risk
Secularization
Selective Incentives
Shamanism
Social Norms
Strictness
Tension
Theory of Mind
Uncertainty
Veiling
Vitality
Product details
- ISBN 9789811271847
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2022
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why is religion so widespread? Why do individuals donate large amounts of time, money, and effort to religious groups? What forms does the religious competition take? Why are individuals more religious in some countries than others? What is the future of religion?This book provides a non-technical introduction to how the economic approach answers these and other questions about religion. It defines the economic approach to religion and demonstrates how it is used to study a variety of religious decisions. It explains how religious groups confront credibility, free-rider, and coordination problems that challenge the collective production of religious goods and services. It also examines competition and regulation in religious markets around the world, how religious beliefs and preferences are transmitted and sustained, how religion likely emerged in humankind's distant past, and what the future of religion may hold. The book thus demonstrates how the tools and methods of economics provide fresh insight into a variety of religious behaviors.This book is intended for a wide audience in and out of economics. Though not a textbook per se, its discussion questions and suggested readings at the end of each chapter allow for easy incorporation into the classroom. The mathematics and statistics used by researchers are generally avoided. Both theory and evidence are presented, but the focus is on the ideas that provide a coherent conceptual framework that grounds a deeper exploration of the theoretical and empirical research in the economics of religion.
