{"id":8235,"date":"2024-09-11T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/prof-paul-seabright\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:41:07","slug":"prof-paul-seabright","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/prof-paul-seabright\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Paul Seabright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research Project Title<br\/><\/strong>Conflict and Trust in Religion<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research abstract<\/strong><br\/>This book project is an economist&#8217;s attempt to understand the way in which religious movements (and individual churches, temples, mosques, synagogues and other organizations within movements) compete for members and resources. Drawing on several disciplines and ranging widely from prehistory through classical and medieval times to the present day, it presents a conceptual approach that understands religious organizations as platforms that create communities bringing together diverse groups of members. It analyzes both what such movements have in common with secular platforms and what is distinctively religious about them &#8211; particularly their deployment of ritual, their reliance (to different degrees) on doctrine and belief, and their mastery of narratives that explain their members&#8217; place in the world and help them to make sense of suffering in their lives. It shows how different competitive strategies coexist in the overall religious ecosystem, and have enabled religious movements to innovate in response to the pressures of competition from secular society. As a result religion remains robustly capable of mobilizing its adherents in the 21st century, and also wields immense economic and political power. This power can be used sometimes to good and sometimes to bad effect. The presentation will summarize the book&#8217;s major arguments and open a discussion about how interdisciplinary collaborations can make progress in understanding religion in the world today.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics Research Project TitleConflict and Trust in Religion Research abstractThis book project is an economist&#8217;s attempt to understand the way in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1548,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8235","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}