Böcker av John Walliss

Religion is controversial and challenging. While religious forces are powerful in many societies, they have little or no significance for wide swaths of public or private life in other places. This work on the sociology of religion seeks to make sense of this paradoxical situation, in which religion is simultaneously significant and insignificant.

The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film.

This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830.

This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830.