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An Economic Approach to Religion

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  • Michael McBride

    (University of California, Irvine, USA)

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?

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  • Michael McBride, 2022. "An Economic Approach to Religion," World Scientific Books, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., number 12925, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wsbook:12925
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    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;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
    • D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
    • E7 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macro-Based Behavioral Economics
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics

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