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Index • 403

Protestant orthodoxy, 93
Protestant Reformation, 258
Proust, Marcel
Remembrance of Things Past, 109
Prussian censors, 39
Psalm 91, 100
public health movement, 13
Pushkin, Alexander, 228

Quran, 296, 297, 301, 304, 324

radical enlightenment, and critical
religion, 78–79
Raiffa, Howard, 227
Rangel, Jose Vicente, 95–96
Rashidun, 302
rational capitalism, crisis of legitimacy
in early twentieth century, 290
rational choice theory, 1, 2, 4, 6, 121–22,
152, 225–29
analysis of religion limited to the
development of Christianity in the
United States, 127
began in mathematics, 227
class antagonism, 124
cost-benefit of trust and risk motivate
nearly all human decision-making,
226–27
dualistic methodology, 131
as expression of modern
market-oriented rationality, 247
failure of regarding religion, 229–39
on free-riders, 233
and game theory, 155
ideological presuppositions about
human nature and social action,
156–60, 163, 172
informed by macroeconomic
theoretical models, 161
“methodological individualism,” 124
as a new Grand Theory, 223
religion into a service-oriented
institution within the capitalist
civil society, 126, 128, 129, 136,
137, 167
rise to prominence in the study of
religion in the 1990s, 177
role of class, 239–41
as simplistic version of
instrumental-rationality, 247
social “equilibrium,” 159
in social scientific methodology, 153
and sociological study of religion,
125
strives to prove theory in premodern
contexts, 228

trust as the foundation of modern

capitalism and democracy, 226

rationalism

and ancient Judaism, 215

rationality

one-dimensional conception of, 1

and rise of Western modernity, 288,

292–93

See alsoinstrumental rationality

Rawls, Anne Warfield, 5, 261

realism, 76

reason, confidence in, 119

Reconquista, 306

redemption, 118, 212

red fascism, 76

Reformation, 76, 294

Rehoboam, 209

Reich, Wilhelm, 327

religion

as commodity, 125–26

debates about an adequate definition

of, 27–29

dialectic of, 335

as a generic “essence,” 28

ideological functions of, 136–37

liberational substance of, 143

migration into secular form, 132–33

as part of economic production and

exchange, 23

as part of the social relations between

people, 225

privatization of, 136–37

provision of compensators, 161, 162

as a racket, 89–90

and rational choice, 160–72

as a reified category, 28–29

as response to trauma, 346

social scientific study of, 152–53

struggle against, 245

tendency to define in terms of a belief

system, 163

truth of for Horkheimer, 142

See alsocritical theory of society and

religion; Marx, Karl

religiosity, 347

and levels of subjective well-being, 351

and lower levels of trauma, 6

psychological trauma, and poverty,

353, 354–57

religious beliefs

dialectical relationship to practice, 5,

250–51, 254, 280

inadequate as directions for how to

enact practices, 256–57

as result of social action, 253

as results of social action, 253