An Economic Approach to Religion

Michael McBride
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Michael McBride: University of California, Irvine, USA

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Abstract: 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?

Keywords: Religion; Economics; Rational Choice; Religious Participation; Believing; Belonging; Behaving; Religious Markets; Religious Regulation; Church Attendance; Social Norms; Cultural Transmission; Religious Capital; Risk; Uncertainty; Credibility; Clubs; Monitoring; Exclusion; Selective Incentives; Congregations; Strictness; Tension; Vitality; Economy of Scale; Economy of Scope; Religious Merger; Bundling; Megachurches; Religious Competition; Religious Pluralism; Church-sect Theory; Religious Segregation; Religious Monopoly; Contestable Market; Religious Deregulation; Evolution of Norms; Animism; Ancestor Worship; Shamanism; In-Group Favoritism; Theory of Mind; Secularization; Veiling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 A13 D9 E7 Z1 Z12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
ISBN: 9789811259548
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An Economic Approach to Religion , pp 1-22

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Ch 2 Measuring Religion , pp 23-45

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Ch 3 Church Attendance , pp 47-64

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Ch 4 Proximate Sources of Religious Preferences , pp 65-88

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Ch 5 Religious Beliefs and the Problem of Credibility , pp 89-110

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Ch 6 Religious Clubs and the Free-Rider Problem , pp 111-135

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Ch 7 Religious Authority and the Coordination Problem , pp 137-158

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Ch 8 Patterns of Religious Group Vitality , pp 159-186

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Ch 9 The Boundaries of the Religious Club , pp 187-209

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Ch 10 Religious Market Competition , pp 211-236

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Ch 11 The Dynamic Religious Economy , pp 237-278

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Ch 12 The Evolution of Norms and Religion , pp 279-315

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Ch 13 Secularization and the Future of Religion , pp 317-360

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