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religion, true religion is the critical consciousness and expression of human- ity’s finitude of suffering and death, which thus ...

Christopher Craig Brittain From A Beautiful Mind to the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice, Religion, and the Critical Theory of Ad ...

they argue that even modernity’s celebrated concept of reason remains inter- twined with myth and irrational presuppositions. In ...

far ranging disputes over social scientific methodology; such as the distinc- tion between observer and participant knowledge, a ...

for his doctoral dissertation. When a group of women enters the room, the men begin to boast and tease each other over who has t ...

Such a “rational” choice calculation results in what is known as a “Nash- equilibrium”: the product of a game in which each play ...

assume that any of these assumptions can be granted? In this example, the male participants in the game assume they know how the ...

In a manner similar to the way in which the assumptions made about women in the bar-scene from A Beautiful Mind are simplistic a ...

necessary” to explain human behavior; and by “commonsense” purposive- ness, he simply means, “the actor chooses the action which ...

(or “instrumental) rationality that becomes “irrational” once it loses sight of the ends towards which it was initially employed ...

as if “everything really depended on these interpersonal relationships,” and not on larger social mechanisms. “What disappears f ...

implies the assumption that human beings seek rewards and avoid costs. Thus, any “rational” choice will be guided by this prefer ...

that, “Religious economies are like commercial economies in that they con- sist of a market of current and potential customers, ...

should the scholar conclude that the end result of his decision serves to sat- isfy the actual “reward” he desires? One might eq ...

have in such an approach, while criticizing the practice of equating ratio- nality with maximization in economic theory: “the le ...

the more attractive blond woman, they can have their pick of any other “grate- ful” mate. In conclusions such as these, theory c ...

result is “an unattractive product, badly marketed, within a highly regulated and distorted religious economy” (p. 232). Stark a ...

and open supply of religious “products.” He demonstrates that numerous other cultural phenomena factor into religious membership ...

agenda of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists in social scientific method. In a manner not unlike contemporary rational cho ...

In a manner similar to Adorno’s concept of “social totality,” Horkheimer argues that these contradictions between the rational c ...