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Marketplace of the Gods
How Economics Explains Religion
Larry Witham
256 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-539475-7
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Hardback
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27 May 2010
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- The first book that is a comprehensive overview of the new "economic approach to religion"
- Written with accessible journalistic and investigative flare
In Marketplace of the Gods, award-winning journalist Larry Witham tells the inside story of the ground-breaking—and controversial—"economic approach" to religion, a story rich with history, contemporary thought, and the colorful people who are using economic ideas to solve the puzzles of our religious beliefs and behaviors. Written with an investigative flare and a lively writing style, this fascinating book presents a wide-ranging account of how the economic approach to religion can be applied to different faiths, activities, and times in history. Drawing upon cutting edge ideas from the behavioral sciences, and a deep knowledge of religious history,
this new approach reveals how the choices individuals make regarding religion can shape households, groups, movements, and the entire "religious economies" of nations. For many, this new economic approach seems an uncomfortable mixture of sacred and profane, turning our good angels into grubby consumers. But as Witham concludes, the economic approach to religion has insights for everyone, believers and skeptics, offering an exciting exchange of ideas between economics, sociology, psychology, history, and theology.Readership: Students and scholars of religion, economics, history, sociology, and intellectual history
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Larry Witham Larry Witham is an award-winning journalist based in the Washington, DC area. He is the author of ten books, including Where Darwin Meets the Bible and Who Shall Lead Them?
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"This is a very readable, even entertaining book, providing a broad view on the field of the economic study of religion." - Lluis Oviedo, ESSSAT News
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WITHAM:WHERE DARWIN MEETS BIBLE C (9780195150452) OUP 11/07/2002
WITHAM:WHO SHALL LEAD THEM? (9780195166972) OUP 07/01/2005
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(9780977743360) Atlas and Co. 2008
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2008
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