Editing Sociology of religion (section)

===Religious economy===
According to [[Rodney Stark]], [[David Martin (sociologist)|David Martin]] was the first contemporary sociologist to reject the secularization theory outright. Martin even proposed that the concept of secularization be eliminated from social scientific discourse, on the grounds that it had only served ideological purposes and because there was no evidence of any general shift from a religious period in human affairs to a secular period.<ref>Stark, Rodney. "Secularization, R.I.P." ''Sociology of religion 60'', no. 3 (1999): 249–273.</ref>
Stark is well known for pioneering, with [[William Sims Bainbridge]], a [[theory of religious economy]], according to which societies that restrict supply of religion, either through an imposed [[state religion|state religious monopoly]] or through state-sponsored secularization, are the main causes of drops in religiosity. Correspondingly, the more [[religion]]s a society has, the more likely the population is to be religious.<ref name="Stark 2007">{{cite book |last= Stark |first= Rodney |author-link= Rodney Stark |title= Sociology |edition= 10th |year= 2007 |publisher= Thomson Wadsworth |isbn= 978-0-495-09344-2 }}</ref> This contradicts the older view of secularization which states that if a liberal religious community is tolerant of a wide array of belief, then the population is less likely to hold certain beliefs in common, so nothing can be shared and reified in a community context, leading to a reduction in religious observance.<ref name="Bruce 1999">{{cite book|last=Bruce|first=Steve|title=Choice and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-829584-6}}</ref> The religious economy model sparked a lively debate among sociologists of religion on whether market models fit religious practices and on the extents to which this model of religious behavior is specific to the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dromi |first1=Shai M. |last2=Stabler |first2=Samuel D. |title=Good on paper: sociological critique, pragmatism, and secularization theory |journal=Theory and Society |date=18 February 2019 |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=325–350 |doi=10.1007/s11186-019-09341-9 |s2cid=151250246 |url=http://osf.io/ke2d8/ }}</ref>