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REVIEW ESSAY COST-BENEFIT ACCOUNTING AND THE PIETY BUSINESS: IS HOMO REllGIOSUS, AT BOTTOM, A HOMO ECONOMICUS?1 JOSEPH M. BRYANT Lawrence A. Young (ed.), Rational Choice Theory and Religion: Summary and Assessment New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-4159-1192-3. US $19.95. Our reason can fill out a hundred other worlds, and determine their principles and inner fabric. It needs neither the stuff of things nor a platform.... It can build on emptiness as well as on substance, on the pointless as well as on what is very relevant. , Montaigne There has been much talk of late about a purported "paradigm shift" in the sociology of religion, occasioned by the extension of rational- choice analytical principles and economistic models to the study of religious phenomena. Whether this shift is pending, accomplished, or stalled and now in recession, is largely a matter of partisan opinion, as fundamental questions of theory and method remain subject to vigorous, often polarized debate.2 The stakes are considerable, for should the rational-choice gambit attain paradigmatic ascendancy within the field, a radical and comprehensive reconceptualization of religious action and experience will be required. Is such a transfor- mation warranted? ' ' I would like to thank Rod
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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