Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism

by Bainbridge, William Sims; Bruce, Steve; Finke, Roger; Gill, Anthony J.; Hamberg, Eva M.; Jelen, Ted G.; A. Olson, Daniel V.; Pettersson, Thorleif; Stark, Rodney; Warner, R Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780742511866
• ISBN10: 0742511863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted. G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in the sociology of religion to debate market theories of religion. As the contributors examine whether or not religious choices can be understood as responding to the same laws of supply and demand as other forms of consumer behavior, they bring out many of the issues, controversies, and concerns surrounding this innovative theory.

Author Biography

Ted G. Jelen is professor of political science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
More Progress on the New Paradigm	1	(30)
R. Stephen Warner
Beyond Church and Sect: Dynamics and Stability in Religious Economics	31	(32)
Rodney Stark
Roger Finke
A Prophet's Reward: Dynamics of Religious Exchange	63	(28)
William Sims Bainbridge
Religious Markets; Supply, Demand, and Rational Choices	91	(24)
Eva M. Hamberg
Thorleif Pettersson
A Political Economy of Religion	115	(18)
Anthony Gill
Competing Notions of Religious Competition and Conflict in Theories of Religious Economies	133	(34)
Daniel V. A. Olson
The Poverty of Economism or the Social Limits on Maximizing	167	(20)
Steve Bruce
Reflections on the ``New Paradigm'': Unfinished Business and an Agenda for Research	187	(18)
Ted G. Jelen
Index	205	(8)
About the Contributors	213