Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation: A Game Theoretic Analysis

McBride, Michael

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“…This explanation is also consistent with the empirical finding of Gruber and Hungerman (2008) that the repeal of 'blue laws' (which placed restrictions on Sunday shopping) in the United States has had adverse effects on church attendance and church contribution. It is also in line with the result of McBride (2008McBride ( , 2010) that restrictions placed on secular activities can have important consequences for religious activity.…”

Section: The Demand Sidesupporting

confidence: 71%

“…As we move across the circle, we encounter consumers with different (one-dimensional) preferences regarding their most desirable characteristic of the spiritual good. In contrast to Barros and Garoupa (2002) and McBride (2008McBride ( , 2010, this characteristic is not strictness (which we shall consider subsequently); rather, this characteristic is some feature of religion like theology or its practical implementation in daily life that appeals to a person's mindset or is most conducive to her cultivation of spirituality. The theology and practices are very different for Hinduism and Pentecostal Christianity, for example.…”

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“…In this approach, we follow Barros and Garoupa (2002) who, in turn, acknowledge that they are formalizing the views of Stark and Bainbridge (1987) and Stark (1988, 1992). Montgomery (2003) and McBride (2008McBride ( , 2010 also employ analogous models of product differentiation. As in Barro and McCleary (2005), we assume that consumers of religious products have different tastes that are spread out uniformly over a circle whose circumference is of unit length.…”

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“…For recent papers that emphasize the need to incorporate both the demand and the supply sides into the analysis of religious markets, seeMontgomery (2003) andMcBride (2008McBride ( , 2010.5 Eswaran: Competition and Performance in the Marketplace for ReligionBrought to you by | Karolinska Institute Authenticated Download Date | 6/1/15 2:46 PM…”

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Competition and Performance in the Marketplace for Religion: A Theoretical Perspective

Eswaran¹

2011

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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This paper, which contributes to the literature that rigorously models religious markets, offers a theoretical framework that incorporates demand and supply sides. The model can accommodate Adam Smith's view that competition may possibly improve on monopoly's performance and also David Hume's opposite view that, because the clergy have an incentive to distort the message of religion, monopoly might possibly improve on competition. Impacts on religiosity of greater diversity and of increased competition in the marketplace for religion are isolated. It is shown that while greater diversity benefits the devout (as claimed by "supply-side" theorists), increased competition dilutes spiritual standards by encouraging monetary donations at the expense of genuine piety. These opposing effects of diversity and competition help reconcile apparently contradictory empirical findings on the American religious market and also those suggesting European "exceptionalism."

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2011

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“…Scholars have worked to integrate both supply-and demand-side factors and to explain religious behavior as well as organizations (Ekelund, Hébert, and Tollison 2006;Montgomery 2003;McBride 2008;McCleary 2011).…”

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Causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation

Becker

Pfaff

Rubin

2016

Explorations in Economic History

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The Protestant Reformation is one of the defining events of the last millennium. Nearly 500 years after the Reformation, its causes and consequences have seen a renewed interest in the social sciences. Research in economics, sociology, and political science increasingly uses detailed individual-level, city-level, and regional-level data to identify drivers of the adoption of the Reformation, its diffusion pattern, and its socioeconomic consequences. We take stock of this research, pointing out what we know and what we do not know and suggesting the most promising areas for future research.

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Religion, State, and Democracy

Driessen¹

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S.

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Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation: A Game Theoretic Analysis

Cited by 46 publications

References 22 publications

Competition and Performance in the Marketplace for Religion: A Theoretical Perspective

Competition and Performance in the Marketplace for Religion: A Theoretical Perspective

Causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation

Religion, State, and Democracy

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