Study of cults and new religious movements, religion
Political party
Liberal Democrats
Board member of
INFORM, Study Group for the Sociology of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Association for the Sociology of Religion, International Journal of Cultic Studies, Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Eileen Vartan BarkerOBE FBA (born 21 April 1938, in Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is the chairperson and founder of the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (INFORM) and has written studies about cults and new religious movements.
Eileen Vartan Barker OBE FBA (born 21 April 1938, in Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE)...
"New Age" ideas) have become part of worldwide mainstream culture. EileenBarker has argued that NRMs should not be "lumped together," as they differ...
School of Economics. It was founded by the sociologist of religion, EileenBarker, with start-up funding from the British Home Office and Britain's mainstream...
ISBN 9780815314288. EileenBarker, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? (1984; repr., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), 2. [ISBN missing] EileenBarker, "General...
Choice or Brainwashing? is a 1984 book written by British sociologist EileenBarker. The book describes the religious conversion process to the Unification...
medievalist Eileen Tabios (born 1960), Filipino-American writer and artist Eileen Wilks (born 1952), American fiction writer EileenBarker (born 1938)...
studies was The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? by EileenBarker (1984). Barker could find no evidence that Moonie recruits were ever kidnapped...
that moral panics always include the deviancy amplification spiral. EileenBarker asserts that the controversy surrounding certain new religious movements...
Penguin Dictionary of Religions. Extract by EileenBarker. Rosen, New York. ISBN 0-14-051261-6. Barker, Eileen (1989). New Religious Movement: A Practical...
historical perspective," in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of EileenBarker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, Routledge, London...
which case they are distinct from pre-existing denominations. In 1999, EileenBarker estimated that NRMs, of which some but not all have been labelled as...
group believes this will ultimately actualize its doomsday scenario." EileenBarker has compared these concepts to the notion of a deviancy amplification...
studies was The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? by EileenBarker (1984). Barker could find no evidence that Moonie recruits were ever kidnapped...
Kate Barker (born Arizona Donnie Clark; October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935), better known as Ma Barker (and sometimes known as Arizona Barker and Arrie...
Bryan Wilson and Jamie Cresswell editors, Routledge ISBN 0415200504 EileenBarker, 1999, "New Religious Movements: their incidence and significance",...
historical perspective", in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of EileenBarker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson (Routledge, London...
psychiatry, history, psychology, sociology, religious studies, and theology. EileenBarker noted that there are five sources of information on new religious movements...
sociologist EileenBarker. Funds were reinstated in 2000. In his article for The Spectator (2004) he accused INFORM and its president EileenBarker of "refusing...
youngest sister amongst her siblings). Barker's elder sister Vera was born in 1926 and his younger sister Eileen was born in 1933. His father was a clerk...
Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West. Macon edited by EileenBarker, GA: Mercer University Press, (1984), ISBN 0-86554-095-0 pages 303-308...
CESNUR's board include Luigi Berzano, Gianni Ambrosio, Reender Kranenborg, EileenBarker and J. Gordon Melton. Berzano, who later became CESNUR's president,...
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