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The Religious Market and its Regulation: A Sociological Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2007

Erik Sengers
Erik Sengers
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Protestant Theological University, Kampen, The Netherlands1
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 294 - 301
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1 This is a revised version of a paper delivered at the Second International Summer School in Law and Religion: ‘Regulating the Religious Market’, Siena, 27 August–2 September 2006, reported at (2007) 9 Ecc LJ 127.

2 See, among many others, Bruce, S, Choice and Religion: a critique of the rational choice theory on religion (Oxford, 1999)Google Scholar; Gooren, H, ‘The religious market model and conversion: towards a new approach’, (2006) 35 Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research 39–60CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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7 Cf Stark and Finke, Acts of Faith, p 202.

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9 Sengers, E ‘Al zijn we katholiek, we zijn Nederlanders’: opkomst en verval van de katholieke kerk in Nederland sinds 195 vanuit rational choice- perspectief (Delft, 2003), p 77Google Scholar.

10 This includes priests of the Church of England licensed by the Bishop of Gibraltar to serve in chaplaincies in Belgium, being part of the Diocese in Europe.

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15 Code of Canon Law 1983, canon 1254.

16 Sengers, ‘Al zijn we katholiek …’, p 41–43.