A Different Approach on Understanding and Explaining of Religious Choices: Ratonal Choice Theory
DİNİ TERCİHLERİ ANLAMA vE AÇIKLAMAYA FARKLI BİR YAKLAŞIM: RASYONEL SEÇİM TEORİSİ

Author : -Adnan SELMAN - Ramazan UÇAR
Number of pages : 70-91

Abstract

The subject of this study is ratonal choice theory and the concepts related with the theory, which has been used in religious studies for the last thirty-fourty years. The theory depends on that human beings are homo-economicus and that religious behaviour of humans are taken shape in this manner. Based on the postulate that every act of individuals emerge from cost and proft analysis, the theory is establishen on three basic elements. These are maximizing behavior, stable preferences and market equilibrium.

Keywords

Ratonal Choice Theory of Religion, Maximizing Behaviour, Religious Market, Religious Product, Religious Monopoly-Çoğulculuk.

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