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- Title
Religious Market Competition in a Richer World.
- Authors
MCBRIDE, MICHAEL
- 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 to rising opportunity costs of religious demand and supply ignore countervailing influences.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC development; RELIGION; SUPPLY &; demand; ECONOMIC competition; SECULARIZATION (Theology); URBANIZATION
- Publication
Economica, 2010, Vol 77, Issue 305, p148
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00732.x