Add to ORKGThe rational-choice/market-model of religions really consists of two, separable parts: a model of religious behavior plus a rational-choice explanation of why that behavior occurs. This article examines three key theoretical assumptions of the latter explanation. It shows two of these to be false and the third to be so vague as to be useless. This undercuts a rational-choice psychology as an explanation for religious actions. It undercuts, however, neither the utility of the market-model itself nor of a rational-choice model of human behavior (as opposed to action). Together these can describe the overall structure of the religious marketplace, but cannot — and need not — describe the subjective actions of religious persons
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While women are generally oppressed within hierarchical and patriarchal religious traditions, resear...
Critical responses to the application of Rational Choice theories to the study of religious phenomen...
Although rational choice theory has made considerable advances in other social sciences, its progres...
Religions typically prescribe their followers to display distinct behavior in consumption, productio...
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The rational choice theorists of religion have attempted to build upa body of transcultural, univers...
Rational choice theories have been very influential in the sociology over the past twenty years. Des...
The argument of this paper is that market-theories of religion that are based on the notion of ‘rati...
Religious individuals commonly make sizable monetary sacrifices by contributing to their congregatio...
A number of papers have been published in the Association of Christian Economists Journal in recent ...
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in religion among economists, but the content ...
In spite of the tremendous success of the concept of ‘‘religious markets’’, it has remained unclear ...
Religion is shown to be distinct from both rationalism and spiritualism but to combine elements of b...
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in religion among economists, but the content ...
This article uses a computer-based Schelling-model to examine the aggregate outcomes of individual c...
While women are generally oppressed within hierarchical and patriarchal religious traditions, resear...
Critical responses to the application of Rational Choice theories to the study of religious phenomen...
Although rational choice theory has made considerable advances in other social sciences, its progres...
Religions typically prescribe their followers to display distinct behavior in consumption, productio...
This paper considers four issues concerning the application to the religious field of concepts and t...
The rational choice theorists of religion have attempted to build upa body of transcultural, univers...
Rational choice theories have been very influential in the sociology over the past twenty years. Des...
The argument of this paper is that market-theories of religion that are based on the notion of ‘rati...
Religious individuals commonly make sizable monetary sacrifices by contributing to their congregatio...
A number of papers have been published in the Association of Christian Economists Journal in recent ...
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in religion among economists, but the content ...
In spite of the tremendous success of the concept of ‘‘religious markets’’, it has remained unclear ...
Religion is shown to be distinct from both rationalism and spiritualism but to combine elements of b...
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in religion among economists, but the content ...
This article uses a computer-based Schelling-model to examine the aggregate outcomes of individual c...
While women are generally oppressed within hierarchical and patriarchal religious traditions, resear...
Critical responses to the application of Rational Choice theories to the study of religious phenomen...