2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00732.x
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Religious Market Competition in a Richer World

Abstract: Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a formal model of religious competition, I show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious activity in an open religious market, and that it has little effect in a religious market that is already secularized due to regulations that prohibit religious competition or in a highly religious market with regulations that inhibit secular activities. Theories predicting the decline of religion due t… Show more

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“…26 As more and more scienti…c knowledge becomes 2 5 The Anthropology literature provides many examples of intense ritualistic societies. One example discussed in Boyer (2001) is the extraordinary number of rituals performed in Melanesian religions for the purpose of protection against witchcraft.…”
Section: Religion and Scienti…c Progressmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…26 As more and more scienti…c knowledge becomes 2 5 The Anthropology literature provides many examples of intense ritualistic societies. One example discussed in Boyer (2001) is the extraordinary number of rituals performed in Melanesian religions for the purpose of protection against witchcraft.…”
Section: Religion and Scienti…c Progressmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Настоящее исследование в значительной степени вдохновлено работой [McBride, 2010], в которой рассматривается общий случай стратегического взаимодействия деноминаций на нерегулируемом религиозном рынке. Ее автор задается вопросом: следует ли за ро-стом благосостояния общества неизбежная потеря религиозности.…”
Section: заключениеunclassified
“…В уже многократно процитированной работе [McBride 2010] автор рассматривает нерегулируемый рынок религиозных услуг. Существующее в мире законодательство о религиях свидетельствует, что нерегулируемого религиозного рынка нет ни в одной стране мира.…”
Section: равновесие на регулируемом рынке деноминацийunclassified
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