Roy Wallis

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Roy Wallis, (1945-1990) was a sociologist and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at The Queen’s University of Belfast. He is mostly known for his creation of the seven signs that differentiate a religious congregation from a secterian church, which he created while researching the Scientology church.

After publishing his book The Road to Total Freedom, an in-depth analysis of the sociology of Scientology, he was harassed by the church both legally and personally.

He introduced the distinction between world-affirming and world-rejecting new religious movements.

Bibliography

• Roy Wallis, The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984),
• Roy Wallis The Road to Total Freedom,

References

External links

• Roy Wallis 1976, The Road to Total Freedom, A Sociological analysis of Scientology (ISBN 0-231-04200-0)
• http://www.dci.dk/?artikel=514
• http://www.dci.dk/?artikel=600
• http://www.dci.dk/en/?article=488

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