Apologyby Socrates or the Vedic Upanishadsto see Christian thinking – sev-
eral hundred years before Christ. The task for scholars then is to identify the
complex interaction of important variables of time and place, the social fac-
tors that define an age: the institutions of power and the forces of change. In
comparison, rational-choice theory attempts to make the facts fit the narrow
bounds of a simplistic theory which, in this case, amounts to little more than
the ideology of modern capitalism.
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