RELIGION IN CHINA: AN ECONOMIC APPROACH.

Autor: Walayat, Aaron J.
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Zdroj: Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law; Jan2020, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p3-46, 44p
Abstrakt: This project is an interpretation of the regulation of religions in China through economic language, analyzing the religious behavior of individuals given heavy regulation. The relationship of Chinese regulation of the five legal religions as either a regulated monopoly or an oligopoly. Due to the fundamentally legal nature of the industrial organization of religion in China, the project will analogize the legal relationship between the Chinese government and the five legal religions with the legal status of Chinese state-owned enterprises. The comparison between the laws governing state-owned enterprises and the laws governing social organizations like the legal religious organizations is important in interpreting the behavior of religious groups. The project will be focused mainly on the behavior of so-called religious "firms" in the context of the industrial organization model and the constrains that such a model puts on these firms. Furthermore, given the presence of an industrial organization of religion, spurs the creation of a parallel "informal" market of religious activity which includes special economic behavior among religious consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index