eprintid: 49363 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/04/93/63 datestamp: 2024-06-03 06:48:09 lastmod: 2024-06-03 06:48:34 status_changed: 2024-06-03 06:48:09 type: book metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Seabright, Paul creators_idrefppn: 034345191 creators_halaffid: 1002422 title: The Divine Economy ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their competitive strategies over thousands of years. Today, they are big business; like businesses, they must recruit, raise funds, disburse budgets, manage facilities, organize transportation, motivate employees, and get their message out. In The Divine Economy, economist Paul Seabright argues that religious movements are a special kind of business: they are platforms, bringing together communities of members who seek many different things from one another—spiritual fulfilment, friendship and marriage networks, even business opportunities. Their function as platforms, he contends, is what has allowed religions to consolidate and wield power. date: 2024-05 date_type: published publisher: Princeton University Press official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/129321 sub_title: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: FALSE physical_desc: 504 view_date_year: 2024 full_text_status: none place_of_pub: Princeton pages: 504 isbn: 9780691133003 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:129321 harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: isbn harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: pages harvester_local_overwrite: title harvester_local_overwrite: sub_title harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd oai_lastmod: 2024-05-02T14:03:12Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 hal_id: hal-04597557 hal_passwd: 54v4kg? hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.science/hal-04597557 citation: Seabright, Paul (2024) The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People. Princeton University Press Princeton ISBN 9780691133003