





John Carroll is professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne and author of The Existential Jesus.
His recent books include The Western Dreaming (2001), Terror: a meditation on the meaning of September 11 (2002), The Wreck of Western Culture: humanism revisited (2004), and a new version of Ego and Soul (2008).
Sociologist and author John Carroll examines the "excessive fearfulness" and paranoia surrounding child abduction.