Rational choice theory

The thesis considers the career of the Student Christian Movement (SCM) which was founded in 1892 to promote missions and to recruit students for missionary work. As it grew, the SCM extended its operations to the founding and servicing of Christian Unions in colleges and progre…

In The Heretical Imperative (1979), Peter Berger posited two types of religiosity: (1) Jerusalem , where the divine is experienced outside of (and separate from) the self and cosmos; and (2) Benares , where the divine is experienced within, or identical with, the self. In The Ot…