Move over, Murphy
Some 'Laws' of the Sociology of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2590902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Silverman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 421 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3711784 |
| OpenAlex | W1992059117 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
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
Criticism · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of law · Sociology of religion · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |