Wallis Roy

Roy Wallis was a representative of an impressive generation of students of Brian Wilson at Oxford University ^[1] . His doctoral dissertation was devoted to the study of Scientology and later formed the basis of the monograph “ The Road to Full Freedom "Where he first demonstrated his characteristic skill to perceive and simplify a large amount of heterogeneous material and fruitfully reworked the works of the theologian Helmut Richard Niebuhr (typology" sect - denomination - church "), adding definition of the boundaries of cults ^{[1] [6] [7] [8 ] ]} .

Roy Wallis argued that in terms of typological differences, we are mainly interested in two simple questions ^[1] :

• the extent to which ideology considers itself to be the only correct or only legitimate (and not one of the pluralistic points of view);
• the extent to which ideology is considered acceptable and respected (rather than deviant ) in the surrounding society.

The study of new religious movements led Wallis to the creation of his main work, “ The Elementary Forms of New Religions” ( eng. The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life ). Wallis introduced new criteria for the distinction between peace-affirming ( world-affirming ), peace-tolerant ( world-accommodating ) and world-rejecting ( new world-rejecting ) new religious movements ^{[1] [9]} .

Wallis also developed the theory of factionalism and heresies, expounding it in 1979 in his work “Salvation and Rebellion” ( Eng. Salvation and Protest ), further the theory of charisma in the collection “ Millennialism and Charisma” ( eng. Millennialism and Charisma ), published by the publishing house Queen's University in Belfast in 1982 ^[1] .

Roy Wallis is also known as an ardent supporter of the secularism of the state , which is reflected in his criticism of the theory of religion of Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge , as well as theorist delimitation of science, religion and medicine. He is the author and co-author of three collections of articles on this topic, with which he gave a lot of time and effort: “Marginal Medicine” ( 1976 ), “Culture and Treatment” ( English Culture and Curing ) ( 1978 ) and “ On the sidelines of science ”( Eng. On the Margins of Science (Sociological Review Monographs) ( 1979 ) ^[1] .

After the release of the book The Path to Full Freedom ” In which Wallis conducted a thoughtful and in-depth study of the Church of Scientology , he was subjected to moral and judicial attacks from this organization ^[10] . The Church of Scientology sent out fake letters, allegedly written by Roy Wallis, to his colleagues, which reported on his involvement in all sorts of scandals ^[11] .

In 1977 he left the University of Stirling to take the chair of the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Queen's University in Belfast , in 1989 and the post of pro-vice chancellor of the university ^[1] .

Monographs

• Wallis, Roy Sectarianism. - London: Peter Owen 1975
• Roy Wallis : A Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology London: Heinemann, 1976 ISBN 0-435-82916-5 . US edition published 1977 by Columbia University Press , ISBN 0-231-04200-0
• Roy Wallis, Peter Morley Marginal Medicine. - Owen, 1976
• Roy Wallis, Peter Morley Culture and Curing. - Owen 1978
• Roy Wallis On the Margins of Science (Sociological Review Monographs), 1979
• Roy Wallis Salvation and protest: a study of social and religious movements. - New York: St. Martins Press 1979
• Roy Wallis Millennialism and Charisma. - Belfast: Queen's University of Belfast , 1982
• Roy Wallis The Elementary Forms Of The New Religious Life. - London: Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1984 ISBN 0-7100-9890-1
• Wallis, Roy & Steve Bruce Sociological theory, religion, and collective action. - Belfast: Queen's University , 1986

Articles

• Wallis, Roy The sectarianism of Scientology. // Michael Hill (ed.), A Sociological Yearbook of Religion. London: SCM Press - 1973. - No. 6, 136-155 pp.
• Wallis, Roy Religious Sects and the fear of publicity. // New Society . - 7 June 1973. - 545-547 pp.
• Wallis, Roy Societal reactions to Scientology. // Wallis, Roy Sectarianism. - London: Peter Owen , 1975. - 86-116 pp.
• Wallis, Roy Scientology: therapeutic cult to religious sect. // Sociology , 1975. - № 9 (1). - P. 89-99.
• Wallis, Roy Poor man's psychoanalysis? Observations on Dianetics. // The Zetetic . - No. 1 (1). - P. 9-24
• Wallis, Roy The moral project of a research project. [Scientology] // C. Bell & H. Newby (eds.), Doing sociological research. London: Heorge Allen & Unwin, 1977
• Yesterday’s children’s religious movement. // Wilson, Bryan R., ed. The social impact of new religious movements. - New York: The Rose of Sharon Press, 1981 - P.97-132.
• Roy Wallis Charisma, commitment, and control in a new religious movements. // Roy Wallis Millennialism and Charisma. - Belfast: Queen's University of Belfast , 1982. - p. 73-140.
• Roy Wallis The social construction of charisma. // Social Compass . - 1982. - № 29. - P.25-39.
• Wallis, Roy . // Barker, Eileen , ed. New religious movements: a perspective for understanding society. - Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen., 1982. - P. 216-231.
• Wallis, Roy Religion, Reason Horizon. // Sociological Analysis, 1983. - № 44 (3). - P. 215-220.
• Wallis, Roy & Steve Bruce The Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion: a critical analysis and counter proposals. // Sociological Analysis. - 1984 - No. 45. - P. 11-27.
• Wallis, Roy // Stark, Rodney , ed. Religious movements: genesis, exodus, and numbers. - New York: Paragon Press, 1985. - P. 129-156.
• Wallis, Roy Betwixt therapy and salvation: the changing form of the human potential movement. // Jones, R. Kenneth, ed. Sickness and sectarianism. - Aldershot: Gower Press., 1985. - P. 23-51.
• Wallis, Roy The social construction of charisma. // Wallis, Roy & Steve Bruce Sociological theory, religion, and collective action. - Belfast: Queen's University , 1986. - P.129-154
• Wallis, Roy Figuring out cult receptivity. // Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion . - 1986. - № 25. - P.494-503.
• Wallis, Roy Hostages to fortune: thoughts on the future of Scientology and the Children of God. // Bromley, David G. & Phillip H. Hammond , eds. The future of new religious movements. - Macon, GA: Mercer University Press 1987
• Wallis, Roy Paradoxes of freedom and regulation: the case of new religions in Britain and America. // Sociological Analysis. - 1988 - № 48. - p. 355-371.