RT Article
T1 Move over, Murphy: Some “Laws” of the Sociology of Religion
JF Sociology of religion
VO 54
IS 4
SP 421
OP 425
A1 Silverman, William
LA English
YR 1993
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1819416577
AB 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.
DO 10.2307/3711784