Secularization

dc.citation.epage209en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2-3en_US
dc.citation.spage191en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber17en_US
dc.contributor.authorGüner, S. Ş.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T10:45:23Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T10:45:23Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-22en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes three evolutionary games to study secularization. The games assume that there is a severe competition for a resource defined as the material wealth a society produces. Successful strategies emerge out of the process, become the authority, capture and allocate the resource. Individuals who prefer a heavier or lighter weight of religion within the organization of the polity respectively named as religious and secular types can become wealthier and be emulated in the population depending on their initial proportions in the population. The society can evolve into a stable division of secular and religious types or can evolve opposite directions toward secularization. Impostors who misrepresent their religious preferences can invade a population that is equally halved into religious and secular types. No evolutionary stability is reached if impostors make no mistake in misrepresenting their beliefs; otherwise secular or religious strategies become evolutionarily stable.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/21567689.2016.1222939en_US
dc.identifier.issn2156-7689
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/36591
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2016.1222939en_US
dc.source.titlePolitics, Religion and Ideologyen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.titleSecularizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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