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Economic and Religious Choice: A Case-Study from Early Christian Communities

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  • Gotsis, George
  • Drakopoulos, Stavros A.

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The aim of this paper is to elaborate an evaluative framework of religious choice within the early Christian communities reconstructed through the narrative of a New Testament Epistle, 2Peter, based on an economic approach to moral dilemmas identified in this context. Thus the work concentrates on the stances, attitudes and social practices of deviant members who engaged in free-riding within early Christian congregations and were exposed to serious self-control problems. In our attempt to employ economic theories of religion, we are in a position to better assess the efficiency of early Christian responses to the entry of competing groups in the religious market of this era, as well as to identify and explore the sort of criteria that determine the intertemporal choices of distinct religious actors.

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  • Gotsis, George & Drakopoulos, Stavros A., 2008. "Economic and Religious Choice: A Case-Study from Early Christian Communities," MPRA Paper 7097, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:7097
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    Keywords

    choice and markets; religious consumption; free-riding;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • B11 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)

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