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Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Relationship between Need and Happiness

2.1 Satisfaction of Needs as a Cause of Human Action

2.2 Characteristics of Needs

2.3 The Relationship between Need and Happiness

2.4 Definition of a Utility Function That Describes the Need Structure

2.5 Determination of Maximum Utility

3 Microeconomic Interpretation of Religious Texts

3.1 The Monomyth as a Formative Structure of Myths

3.2 Judaism

3.3 Christianity

3.4 Islam

3.5 Hinduism

3.6 Buddhism

3.7 Daoism

4 Microeconomic Interpretation of Religious Rituals

4.1 Rites of Passage

4.2 Sacrificial Rituals

5 The Meaning of Religion

Appendices

A Extended Analysis of the Microeconomic Model

A.1 The Homo Agens as a Universal Behavioral Model

A.2 Description of Human Decision-Making Behavior

A.3 Methods for Need Identification and Utility Measurement

A.4 The Relationship between Goods and Satisfaction Rate

A. 5 Other Models of the Economics of Religion

B Interpretation Examples

B. 1 The Oedipus Myth

B.2 The Cinderella Fairy Tale

B.3 The Tragedy Romeo and Juliet

B.4 The Myth of Quetzalcoatl

B. 5 The Christian Trinity

C Morality and Religion

C. 1 Morality as a Component of Religious Symbolism

C.2 The Theodicy Problem

Bibliography