A Bayesian model of religious conversion

Vikas Kumar ()
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Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2013, vol. 47, issue 2, 1163-1171

Abstract: The Economics of Religion literature is of two minds on whether conversion is more likely to occur between close or distant religions. The religious capital model suggests that conversion should involve sufficiently close religions whereas cognitive considerations suggest that conversion should involve sufficiently distant religions. We reconcile these seemingly contradictory insights about conversion for the class of non-instrumental, intrinsically motivated conversions within a Bayesian framework. We show that religious conversion should involve moderately distant religions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

Keywords: Cognitive constraints; Conversion; Decision; Economics of Religion; Religious capital; C44; D80; Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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