The Marketplace of Christianity
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loginEconomic markets tell us about the production and distribution of mate-rial goods. But humankind’s spiritual needs, as manifested through theages by the practices of magic and religion, are as pressing and durableas its material needs. The existential dilemma posed by life on planetearth was as real for the ancient hunter as it is for the modern computerprogrammer. For eons, religion in its myriad forms has been a bindingforce of human populations and a contributing factor to human survival.Can economics, the science of markets, help us understand this realm ofhuman behavior? We believe that it can, especially when it enlists othersocial and biological sciences to explain religious markets in all eras ofhuman history and, in particular, in the half-millennium from the Protes-tant Reformation to modern Christianity.
