Abstract This article introduces the six essays comprising this symposium on the economics of religion. The essay by Carvalho presents an economic model highlighting the “social role” of sacrifice in religious clubs that extends the seminal research on the clubs nature of religious groups. Next, the essay by Gill demonstrates how land use restrictions by government can work to infringe upon religious liberty, and why such restrictions may be implemented by local governments. The essay by Boettke, Hall and Sheehan re-examines, in a modern empirical context, the conceptual argument of Adam Smith, that either monopoly or oligopoly in religion is productive of a dangerous religious zeal that does not exist in a society where competition in religion flourishes. The essay by Bridges and Mixon asserts that changes to the Puritan religious doctrines related to church membership represented a relatively successful market response by Puritan theologians to declining church membership and attendance in seventeenth century colonial America. The essay by Sandonà explores Pope Francis’ critique of “money idolatry,” his rejection of “trickle-down” economics, his support of inclusive institutions, and his thoughts on a movement toward a green economy. Lastly, the essay by Solari contends that reference to natural law renders the central points of liberalism—freedom and individual property—non-comparable to the equivalent notions supported by Catholicism, thus affecting the Catholic approach to capitalism manifest in various moments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These essays offer a fresh, interdisciplinary view on some of the more historical and modern issues that are being investigated by researchers in this genre.

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宗教经济学特刊简介

摘要 本文介绍了本次宗教经济学研讨会的六篇论文。卡瓦略的文章提出了一个经济模型，强调了宗教俱乐部中牺牲的“社会作用”，扩展了对宗教团体俱乐部性质的开创性研究。接下来，吉尔的文章展示了政府对土地使用的限制如何侵犯宗教自由，以及为什么地方政府可以实施此类限制。Boettke、Hall 和 Sheehan 的文章在现代经验背景下重新审视了亚当·斯密的概念论证，即宗教中的垄断或寡头垄断会产生危险的宗教狂热，而这种狂热在一个宗教竞争的社会中是不存在的。蓬勃发展。Bridges 和 Mixon 的文章断言，与教会成员资格有关的清教徒宗教教义的变化代表了清教徒神学家对 17 世纪殖民地美国教会成员人数和出席率下降的相对成功的市场反应。桑多纳的这篇文章探讨了教皇方济各对“金钱偶像崇拜”的批判、他对“涓滴”经济学的拒绝、他对包容性机构的支持，以及他对绿色经济运动的看法。最后，索拉里的文章认为，对自然法的引用使自由主义的中心点——自由和个人财产——无法与天主教支持的同等概念相比，从而影响了天主教对资本主义的态度，体现在 19 世纪和 19 世纪的不同时刻。二十世纪。这些文章提供了一个新鲜的，