Roy Wallis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Wallis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallis |
| SIGNATURE | WALLIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became inte…
Religion
Charisma, History, and Social Structure
Journal Article Charisma, History, and Social Structure, edited by Ronald M. Glassman and William H. Swatos, Jr. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986, 240 pp. $35 Get access Roy Wallis Roy Wallis Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 91–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710922 Published: 01 March 1989
Sociological Theory, Religion and Collective Action
Paradoxes of Freedom and Regulation
This paper issues from the observation of a number of paradoxes relating to the relative freedom of religion--specifically in the form of new religious movements--in the United States and the United Kingdom. The United States embodies freedom of religion in its Constitution, yet nowhere in the English-speaking world, as far as I can see, has there been a more active and vociferous anti-cult movement, nor a more elaborated development of deprogram…
Scepticism and Neoplatonism
Sociological Theory, Religion, and Collective Action
Sociological Theory, Religion and Collective Action
Sociological Theory, Religion and Collective Action
Sociological Theory, Religion and Collective Action
Ethnicity and Evangelicalism
The question of the conditions that must prevail before fundamentalist religion can play a significant part in politics has loomed large in recent years with the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. Protestant fundamentalism has drawn somewhat less attention, except for the case of the new Christian right in America. Nowhere in the contemporary world are the politics of conservative Protestantism more clearly visible than in N…
The Caplow
Journal Article The Caplow—de Tocqueville Account of Contrasts in European and American Religion: Confounding Considerations Get access Roy Wallis Roy Wallis The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 50–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711276 Published: 01 March 1986
The Future of Religion
Journal Article The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation, by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, vi + 571 pp. $29.50 Get access Roy Wallis Roy Wallis The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 74–76, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711280 Published: 0…
Figuring out Cult Receptivity
Rodney Stark and William S. Bainbridge have advanced a theory of religion which draws upon a wide range of supporting data. One body of data advances the claim that new religions will appear disproportionately often in settings where traditional religion is weak, and that contrary to prevailing opinion Europe is markedly more receptive to new religions than the United States. This paper subjects that claim to critical scrutiny and finds it entire…
Robert Towler. The Need for Certainty
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Rescuing Motives' Rescued
Homage to Ozymandias
Steve Bruce, Roy Wallis; Homage to Ozymandias: a rejoinder to Bainbridge and Stark, Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 1, 1 March 1985, Pages 73–75, https
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
Journal Article The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life by Roy Wallis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, x+156 pp. Get access Patrick H. McNamara Patrick H. McNamara The University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 1985, Pages 477–479, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711171 Published: 01 December 1985
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
Science and pseudo-science
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became inte…
Sketch for a Theory of Conservative Protestant Politics
Dans cette analyse exploratoire des rapports entre le protestan tisme conservateur et la politique, les Auteurs commencent par iden tifier des cas forts, faibles et intermédiaires de l'impact du protestantisme sur la politique. Ils suggèrent que ces différents mo dèles d'impact peuvent être compris dans les termes de: a) la for mation initiale d'une culture socio-religieuse; b) les changements ultérieurs au sein de cette culture en relation avec …
Shorter Notices
Millennialism and Charisma
The Stark-Bainbridge Theory of Religion
This paper analyses the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion to show that it contains substantial internal difficulties and unwarranted assumptions. We show that it is not compatible with a closer evaluation of the evidence deployed in its defence, and that an alternative theory accounts for much of that evidence without reliance upon such assumptions. The difficulties of the Stark-Bainbridge theory stem from its reductionism, reducing religious b…
The social construction of charisma
Max Weber laisse planer une certaine ambiguité à propos de la nature du charisme qui réside soit dans une particularité inhé rente à un individu, soit dans le caractère d'une relation sociale. Cet article analyse le cas de David Berg, ou 'Moïse David', fondateur, leader et prophète des Enfants de Dieu. Jusqu'à ses 40 ans, la vie de Berg ne manifeste aucune parti cularité et il n'est qu'une sorte de 'raté entre deux ages'. Son cha risme trouve son…
Accounting for Action
Contemporary sociology embodies a number of different resolutions to the problem of how actors' accounts of their actions are to be treated. Some structuralist and functionalist approaches, such as the Marxist, for example, discount actors' accounts as merely epiphenomenal, generated to make sense of actions people are led to perform on quite different grounds. Some variants of ethnomethodology, on the other hand, construe actors' accounts as all…
Rescuing Motives
Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology
The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology is a major comprehensive encyclopedia aimed at all students of social science. The book explains all the important sociological terms, theories, concept
Religion
Moral Indignation and the Media
Analyses of moral indignation have seen it as generated by infractions of the conscience collective or by repressed envy or prurience. Such explanations seem of limited relevance to various contemporary moral crusades. Joseph Gusfield's theory of moral reform as a mode of status politics is explored in the context of an analysis of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. Gusfield argues that assimilative reform which seeks to convert th…
Making Sense Together
The Aetherius Society
Rescuing Motives' Rescued
Culture and Curing
Observations on the Children of God
Sketch for a Theory of Conservative Protestant Politics
Dans cette analyse exploratoire des rapports entre le protestan tisme conservateur et la politique, les Auteurs commencent par iden tifier des cas forts, faibles et intermédiaires de l'impact du protestantisme sur la politique. Ils suggèrent que ces différents mo dèles d'impact peuvent être compris dans les termes de: a) la for mation initiale d'une culture socio-religieuse; b) les changements ultérieurs au sein de cette culture en relation avec …
Scientology
Prevailing conceptions of the cult are criticized. A new typology of religious collectivities is elaborated and related to a theory of the development of cults. This theory claims that a central feature of the cult is 'epistemological individualism'. The central characteristic of the sect on the other hand is 'epistemological authoritarianism'. The process of sectarianization therefore involves the arrogation of authority typically on the basis o…
The People of the Book
Journal Article The People of the Book: Drama Fellowship, and Religion, by Samuel C. Heilman, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1983, ix + 337 pp. $22.50 Get access Roy Wallis Roy Wallis The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 1, Spring 1984, Page 72, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711329 Published: 01 March 1984
Network and Clockwork
In a recent paper Snow et al. , (1980) address themselves to the following questions: 'Why are some people rather than others recruited into a particular social movement organization?'; ' . how is it that people come to participate in one rather than another' competing and functionally equivalent movement in the same market?; and 'Why do some movement organizations attract a larger following and grow at a more rapid rate than others?' (p. 787). I…
The Voice and the Eye
Sociological Theory, Religion and Collective Action
Ethnicity and Evangelicalism
The question of the conditions that must prevail before fundamentalist religion can play a significant part in politics has loomed large in recent years with the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. Protestant fundamentalism has drawn somewhat less attention, except for the case of the new Christian right in America. Nowhere in the contemporary world are the politics of conservative Protestantism more clearly visible than in N…
Science and pseudo-science
The Stark-Bainbridge Theory of Religion
This paper analyses the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion to show that it contains substantial internal difficulties and unwarranted assumptions. We show that it is not compatible with a closer evaluation of the evidence deployed in its defence, and that an alternative theory accounts for much of that evidence without reliance upon such assumptions. The difficulties of the Stark-Bainbridge theory stem from its reductionism, reducing religious b…
Purity in Danger
The Caplow
Journal Article The Caplow—de Tocqueville Account of Contrasts in European and American Religion: Confounding Considerations Get access Roy Wallis Roy Wallis The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 50–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711276 Published: 01 March 1986
The Future of Religion
Journal Article The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation, by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, vi + 571 pp. $29.50 Get access Roy Wallis Roy Wallis The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 74–76, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711280 Published: 0…
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became inte…
Tongues of Men and Angels
The Aetherius Society
Making Sense Together
The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief
These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world
Scientology
Prevailing conceptions of the cult are criticized. A new typology of religious collectivities is elaborated and related to a theory of the development of cults. This theory claims that a central feature of the cult is 'epistemological individualism'. The central characteristic of the sect on the other hand is 'epistemological authoritarianism'. The process of sectarianization therefore involves the arrogation of authority typically on the basis o…
The Trumpet of Prophecy
Observations on the Children of God
Sectarianism
Moral Indignation and the Media
Analyses of moral indignation have seen it as generated by infractions of the conscience collective or by repressed envy or prurience. Such explanations seem of limited relevance to various contemporary moral crusades. Joseph Gusfield's theory of moral reform as a mode of status politics is explored in the context of an analysis of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. Gusfield argues that assimilative reform which seeks to convert th…
Ideology and the Ideologists
The Road to Total Freedom
Comment on Wilson and Zurcher's “Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements”
Wilson and Zurcher (1976) set out to discuss the relationships within a set of four variables—income, occupation, education, and pornactivity, that is, activity in relation to two anti-pornography crusades—and to proceed from this discussion to conclusions about status inconsistency as an explanatory framework for the analysis of social movements. We should like to comment on three levels. First we discuss the purely numerical aspects of their an…
The New Religious Consciousness
Sectarianism
Sectarianism
Citizens Groups and Broadcasting
Spindles and Spires
Doomsday Cult
Journal Article Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith (Enlarged Edition) by John Lofland and The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology by Roy Wallis Get access John Wilson John Wilson Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1978, Pages 173–175, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710217 Publishe…
The Road to Total Freedom, a Sociological Analysis of Scientology
Recruiting christian manpower
The Road to Total Freedom
On the margins of science
Purity in Danger
Salvation and Witches in a "Secular" Age
Sacred Journeys
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