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An economic approach to religion

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An economic approach to religionMichael McBride.
Author:	McBride, Michael,
Published:	Singapore :World Scientific,c2023.
Description:	1 online resource (420 p.)
Subject:	ReligionEconomic aspects.
Online resource:	https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12925#t=toc
ISBN:	9789811259555$q(ebook)

An economic approach to religion
McBride, Michael,1973-

An economic approach to religion[electronic resource] /Michael McBride. - Singapore :World Scientific,c2023. - 1 online resource (420 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- About the author -- An economic approach to religion -- Measuring religion -- Church attendance -- Proximate sources of religious preferences -- Religious beliefs and the problem of credibility -- Religious clubs and the free-rider problem -- Religious authority and the coordination problem -- Patterns of religious group vitality -- The boundaries of the religious club -- Religious market competition -- The dynamic religious economy -- The evolution of norms and religion -- Secularization and the future of religion -- Concluding remarks -- Additional resources -- Index.

"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"--

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9789811259555$q(ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

579610
Religion
--Economic aspects.

LC Class. No.: HB72 / .M327 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 201.73

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