Religious Beliefs and the Problem of Credibility

Michael McBride

Chapter 5 in An Economic Approach to Religion, 2022, pp 89-110 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:IntroductionRisk, Uncertainty, and Religion in Small and Large WorldsThe Problem of Credibility and Signaling TheoryCredibility-Enhancing Religious ActionsSyncretismPrivate vs. Associational ReligionSummaryDiscussion QuestionsReadings

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
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