After publishing his book The Road to Total Freedom (1976), an in-depth analysis of the sociology of Scientology, he was harassed by the church both legally and personally.[4][5] Forged letters, apparently from Wallis, were sent to his colleagues implicating him in various scandalous activities.[6]
Publications
Roy Wallis (1975) Sectarianism: Analyses of Religious and Non-Religious Sects, London: Peter Owen & New York: John Wiley,
ISBN0470919108
Roy Wallis and Peter Morley (1976) Marginal Medicine, New York: Free Press,
ISBN0029337402
Roy Wallis and Peter Morley (1978) Culture and Curing: Anthropological Perspectives on Traditional Medical Beliefs and Practices, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, & London: Peter Owen,
ISBN0822953250
Roy Wallis (1979) On the Margins of Science: the Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge, Keele: University of Keele Press,
ISBN0904425061
Roy Wallis (1979) Salvation and Protest: Studies of Social and Religious Movements, New York: St. Martin's Press,
ISBN0312698348
Roy Wallis (1984) The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life, London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
ISBN0710098901
^Bromley, DavidNew Religious Movements in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. Editor
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^"Roy Wallis". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
^Roy Wallis's The Road to Total Freedom, pp. 218–219
^Roy Wallis (1977) "The Moral Career of the Research Project" in Colin Bell and Howard Newby (Eds) Doing Sociological Research London: Allen and Unwin.
ISBN0029023505
^Stewart Lamont (1986) Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology London: Harrap.
ISBN0245543341. p. 87