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Este artigo trata da Teoria do Mercado Religioso. Sao apresentados conceitos, extraidos da Economia, como commodity religiosa, oferta e demanda de bens e servicos religiosos, competicao e monopolio no mercado religioso, dentre outros. Sao discutidos os graus de regulacao no mercado religioso. Sao mostradas as definicoes de organizacoes religiosas e seus tipos, conceitos de compensadores religiosos, e as possiveis consequencias da intervencao governamental no mercado religioso. A principal contribuicao deste trabalho e uma revisao da literatura, com base nos resultados de testes empiricos, sobre a principal premissa da Teoria do Mercado Religioso, ou seja, a de que existe uma correlacao positiva entre pluralismo religioso e frequencia religiosa. This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also presented definitions of religious organizations and its types, concepts of religious compensators, and the possible consequences of government intervention in the religious market. The main contribution of this paper is a review of the literature, based on the results of empirical tests, on main premise of Religious Market Theory, this is, that there is a positive correlation between religious pluralism and religious attendance. |
