Move over, Murphy: Some “Laws” of the Sociology of Religion
Engineers are familiar with Murphy's Law, “If anything can go wrong, it will” Sociologists of religion have developed several laws that summarize empirical generalizations about their field of inquiry. This comment discusses seven of these laws: Thorne's Law of Church Decision Making, Hans...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
1993
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1993, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 421-425 |
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| Summary: | Engineers are familiar with Murphy's Law, “If anything can go wrong, it will” Sociologists of religion have developed several laws that summarize empirical generalizations about their field of inquiry. This comment discusses seven of these laws: Thorne's Law of Church Decision Making, Hansen's Law, Heine's Law, Wesley's Law, Stark's Vaccination Theory of Religious Education, Stark's Criterion for Criticism of Research in the Sociology of Religion, and Johnson's Law. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711784 |