Roy Wallis - (1945 1990) Sociologist of religion. Walliss career took him from a junior lectureship in 1977 at the University of Stirling, Scotland, to the established chair of sociology at the Queens University of Belfast, where he became Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and then Pro Vice Chancellor in 1989. Despite this move into university management and his untimely death, he made significant contributions to the sociology of religion and social movements.Wallis was one of an impressive generation of students of Bryan Wilson at Oxford. In his doctoral thesis on Scientology, subsequently published as The Road to Total Freedom (Heinemann 1976), he first displayed characteristic skill in assimilating and simplifying a large amount of diverse ma (1945 1990) Sociologist of religion. Wallis's caree...
