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Choice and Religion
Steve Bruce
其他書名
A Critique of Rational Choice Theory
出版Oxford University Press, 1999
主題Philosophy / PoliticalReligion / GeneralReligion / PhilosophySocial Science / Sociology of Religion
ISBN01982958479780198295846
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2Hs06rVlzZMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Choice and Religion provides a detailed critique of 'rational choice' to demonstrate that industrialisation has secularised the western world and that diversity, far from making religion more popular by allowing individuals to maximize their returns, undermines it. The claim that competition promotes religion is refuted with evidence from a wide variety of western societies. Bruce also examines the Nordic countries and the ex-communist states of eastern Europe to explore the consequences of different sorts of state regulation, and to show that ethnicity is a more powerful determinate of religious change than market structures. Where religion matters, it is not because individuals are maximising their returns but because it defines group identity and is deeply implicated in social conflict."--BOOK JACKET.