Lawrence A. Young (ed.)

Rational Choice Theory and Religion

Summary and Assessment
Herausgeber: Young, Lawrence A

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Produktbeschreibung

Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics and psychology. Applying the theory of rational choice--the theory that each individual will make her choice to maximize gain and minimize cost--to the study of religion, Lawrence Young has brought together a group of internationally renowned scholars to examine this important development within the field of religion for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780415911924
• ISBN-10: 0415911923
• Artikelnr.: 21335680

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A.Young is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University. He is the co-author of FullPews and Empty Altars (1993) and co-editor ContemporaryMormonism (1994) .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Lawrence A. Young
Part I Summary
Chapter 1 Bringing Theory Back In, Rodney Stark
Chapter 2 Rational Choice, Laurence R. Iannaccone
Chapter 3 The Consequences of Religious Competition, Roger Finke
Chapter 4 Embedding Religious Choices, Darren E. Sherkat
Chapter 5 Convergence Toward the new Paradigm, R. Stephen Warner
Part II Assessment
Chapter 6 Economic Man and the Sociology of Religion, Mary Jo Neitz, Peter R. Mueser
Chapter 7 Religious Choice and Religious Vitality, Nancy T. Ammerman
Chapter 8 Phenomenological Images of Religion and Rational Choice Theory, Lawrence A. Young
Chapter 9 Religion and Rational Choice Theory, Michael Hechter
Chapter 10 Stark and Bainbridge, Durkheim and Weber, Randall Collins