The Comparative Method and the Special Vocation of the Sociology of Religion
This essay argues that the long-run scientific goals of understanding and prediction can be achieved only through a consciousness of the comparative method as the method of scientific analysis. Specifically three points are made: (1) That the social sciences must be both transhistorical and cross-cu...
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1977
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1977, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 106-114 |
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