Eileen Barker
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British professor of sociology
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Eileen Barker's Degrees
- PhD Sociology London School of Economics
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eileen Vartan Barker is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics , 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 and has written studies about cults and new religious movements.
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- The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? (1986) (154)
- New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction (1992) (134)
- The scientific study of religion? You must be joking! (1995) (67)
- RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: CULT AND ANTICULT SINCE JONESTOWN (1986) (60)
- New religious movements: a perspective for understanding society (1983) (58)
- The Making of a Moonie (1984) (55)
- The church without and the God within: religiosity and/or spirituality? (2004) (52)
- The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice (1985) (46)
- Crossing the boundary: new challenges to religious authority and control as a consequence of access to the Internet: Eileen Barker (2005) (38)
- New Religious Movements: Their incidence and significance (1999) (34)
- New Religious Movements (2001) (33)
- But Who's Going to Win? National and Minority Religions in Post-communist Society (1998) (29)
- Of gods and men : new religious movements in the West (1993) (26)
- Charismatization: the social production of `an ethos propitious to the mobilization of sentiments' (1993) (25)
- Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement (2007) (25)
- Perspective: What Are We Studying? (2004) (24)
- We’ve Got to Draw the Line Somewhere: An Exploration of Boundaries that Define Locations of Religious Identity (2006) (22)
- Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism Essays in Honour of Bryan R. Wilson (1994) (17)
- Cults, Religion, and Violence: Watching for Violence: A Comparative Analysis of the Roles of Five Types of Cult-Watching Groups (2002) (17)
- Supping with the Devil: How Long a Spoon Does the Sociologist Need? (1983) (15)
- What are we studying? A sociological case for keeping the "Nova" (2004) (13)
- The Social Reality of Ethics: The Comparative Analysis of Moral Codes (1973) (12)
- Defection from the Unification Church: Some Statistics and Distinctions (1988) (12)
- The Not-So-New Religious Movements: Changes in ‘the Cult Scene’ over the Past Forty Years (2015) (11)
- The centrality of religion in social life: essays in honour of James A. Beckford (2008) (11)
- Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989, xi + 319 pp. $25.95 (1991) (10)
- New Religious Movements in Britain : The Context and the Membership (1983) (10)
- Revisionism and diversification in new religious movements (2013) (10)
- Religion in Global Perspective: SSSR Presidential Panel (2011) (9)
- Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna (1983) (9)
- Living the Divine Principle. Inside the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in Britain / Vivre le Principe Divin. L'Eglise de l'Unification du Révérend Moon en Grande-Bretagne. (1978) (9)
- The cult as a social problem (2010) (8)
- And the wisdom to know the difference? Freedom, control and the sociology of religion (Association for the Sociology of Religion 2002 presidential address) (2003) (8)
- State imposed secularism: yet another dimension? (1998) (7)
- Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious Communities (2016) (7)
- The New Age in Britain (1994) (7)
- Cults, Converts and Charisma: The Sociology of New Religious Movement (1991) (6)
- The british right to discriminate (1984) (6)
- In the Beginning: The Battle of Creationist Science against Evolutionism (1979) (6)
- The opium wars of the new millennium: religion in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2000) (6)
- Religion in China: some introductory notes for the intrepid Western scholar (2011) (5)
- A comparative exploration of dress and the presentation of self as implicit religion (2001) (5)
- I. Apes and angels: Reductionism, selection, and emergence in the study of man (1976) (5)
- Types of Sacred Space and European Responses to New Religious Movements (2008) (5)
- Ageing in New Religions: The Varieties of Later Experiences 1 (2012) (5)
- Stepping out of the Ivory Tower: A Sociological Engagement in ‘The Cult Wars’ (2011) (5)
- General Overview of the ““Cult Scene”” in Great Britain (2001) (4)
- New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society@@@Messianism, Mysticism and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements@@@The English Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth 1870-1930@@@Religious Change in Contemporary Poland: Secularization and Politics (1985) (4)
- Doing sociology: confessions of a professional stranger (2012) (4)
- An introduction to 'The devil’s children' (2009) (4)
- Misconceptions of the Religious ‘Other’: The Importance for Human Rights of Objective and Balanced Knowledge (2010) (4)
- Bryan Wilson’s Contribution to the Study of the New Religious Movements (2006) (4)
- The freedom of the cage (1996) (4)
- What should we do about the cults? Policies, information and the perspective of INFORM (2006) (4)
- Watching for violence: a comparative analysis of five cult-watching groups (2002) (3)
- THE UNIFICATION CHURCH: A KALEIDOSCOPIC INTRODUCTION (2018) (3)
- What are the New Religious Movements Doing in a Secular Society (2005) (3)
- Freedom to Surrender with Bhagwan (1987) (3)
- Taiwan’s Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact (2014) (3)
- The protection of minority religions in Eastern Europe (2002) (3)
- Behold the New Jerusalems! Catch 22s in the Kingdom-Building Endeavors of New Religious Movements (1993) (3)
- Charting the Information Field: Cult‐Watching Groups and the Construction of Images of New Religious Movements (2007) (2)
- In And Out Of Place: Varieties Of Religious Locations In A Globalising World (2009) (2)
- Philosophical keys to the social sciences (1972) (2)
- NEW AND NONCONVENTIONAL RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL HARMONY (2009) (2)
- INFORM: bringing the sociology of religion to the public space (2001) (2)
- Sanja Nilsson: “Performing Perfectly: Presentations of Childhood in Knutby Filadelfia Before and After the Dissolution of the Congregation.” (2019) (2)
- Why the Cults? New Religious Movements and Freedom of Religion or Belief (2004) (2)
- Why the cults? New religions and freedom of religion and beliefs (2004) (2)
- Science and Theology Diverse Resolutions of an Interdisciplinary Gap by the New Priesthood of Science (1980) (2)
- New religions and mental health (2013) (2)
- Harm and new religious movements: some notes on a sociological perspective (2003) (1)
- DOES IT MATTER HOW WE GOT HERE? DANGERS PERCEIVED IN LITERALISM AND EVOLUTIONISM (1987) (1)
- Book Reviews (1985) (1)
- Taking Two to Tango : The New Religious Movements and Sociology (1999) (1)
- Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions (2020) (1)
- Introduction: Sects and new religious movements (1988) (1)
- The Centrality of Religion in Social Life (2021) (1)
- Joseph Fichter and the New Religions (1996) (1)
- Book Review: Leaving the Fold (1994) (1)
- Portrait: Eileen Barker (2018) (1)
- LSE on Freedom (1995) (1)
- David Marshall Lang. Armenia: Cradle of Civilisation . Pp. 320. ( George Allen and Unwin, second edition, 1978; first published 1970.) £12.50. (1980) (0)
- Religious and National Identity in Trans-National New Religious Movements (2018) (0)
- Review: The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion edited by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian (2016) (0)
- On freedom : a centenary anthology (1997) (0)
- Bringing them in: some observations on methods of recruitment employed by new religious movements (2001) (0)
- The Unification Church (2018) (0)
- The Curse of Cults and the Scourge of Sects: (2020) (0)
- Beyond conventional radiation. (1998) (0)
- Rights and Wrongs of New Forms of Religiosity in Europe (2002) (0)
- Book Review: Religion and Change in Modern Britain, edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto (2014) (0)
- James Arthur Beckford: 1 December 1942–10 May 2022 (2022) (0)
- Changes in new religious movements (1998) (0)
- Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, edited by Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, 2012. 790+xxxpp. Hb. €224/$298. ISBN-13: 9789004221871. (2015) (0)
- Beyond mere toleration (2000) (0)
- Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious Communities (2016) (0)
- Book Review: The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology (1976) (0)
- Financing of churches and religious societies in England (2010) (0)
- Religion in Sociological Perspective . By Bryan Wilson. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 187. £8·50. (1983) (0)
- The Orthodox Church of the Sovereign Mother of God/The New Cathar Church (2016) (0)
- Preparing the way: conceptual descriptions and understandings of religion and spirituality in contemporary China (2008) (0)
- Hare Krishna Transformed (2008) (0)
- Review: The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion, by Anabel Inge (2019) (0)
- Massimo Introvigne. Satanism: A Social History. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016. 655 + x pages. ISBN: 978-90-04-28828-7. € 197.00 (hardback). (2016) (0)
- Cult-watching Practices and Consequences in Europe and North America (2002) (0)
- Human Rights and Responsibilities in a Divided World (2000) (0)
- Mapping the territory (2006) (0)
- Even New Religious Movements Have Legacies (2020) (0)
- “Moonies” in America: Cult, Church and Crusade, by David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publication, Inc., 1979, 269 pp. $18.00 (Soft cover $8.95) (1981) (0)
- Radical Transformations in Minority Religions (2021) (0)
- In the Active Voice@@@Essays in the Sociology of Perception (1984) (0)
- When heresy is treachery, and dirt is religion out of place (2005) (0)
- What did they do about it? A sociological perspective on reactions to child sexual abuse in three new religions 1 (2021) (0)
- Review: Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements, edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter (2021) (0)
- Studies in Religion and Society, Vol. 3: New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society. (1983) (0)
- The New Religious Consciousness, Edited by Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bella. - London, University of California Press, 1977, xvii + 391 p. £ 11.75 (1979) (0)
- DIA volume 12 issue 1 Back matter (1973) (0)
- New Religious Movements as Resources in a Changing World (2018) (0)
- Denominationalization or Death? Comparing Processes of Change within the Jesus Fellowship Church and the Children of God aka The Family International (2020) (0)
- Portrait (2018) (0)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion – By Peter B. Clarke (2010) (0)
- Which Tradition Shall I Reject? The Dilemma of Second-Generation Members of New Religious Movements (2014) (0)
- Freedom for me and, perhaps, you – but surely not them? Attitudes to new religions in contemporary democracies (2021) (0)
- James R.Lewis and Inga B.Tollefsen, Eds.: The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, Volume II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. xv + 544. (2020) (0)
- Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel.Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (1993) (0)
- Violence and Religous Commitment: Implications of Jim Jone's People's Temple Movement, Ken Levi (Ed.). Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania and London (1982) (1984) (0)
- Fight, flight or freeze? (2020) (0)
- An old problem seen again. (1989) (0)
- The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion by Anabel Inge (review) (2019) (0)
- Lectures 6 : program 12 (2006) (0)
- New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography, by Elisabeth Arweck and Peter B. Clarke. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1997, xliii, 380 pp.£71.50, $89.50 (1998) (0)
- Social Science as a Complement to the Historical Perspective. The Case of New Religions (2006) (0)
- The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual Poetics and Popular Culture in Transylvania (1991) (0)
- From the Children of God to the Family International: A Story of Radical Christianity and De-radicalising Transformation (2016) (0)
- Contemporary Creations and Re-cognitions of Sacred Sites (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews : Interpreting Religious Phenomena: Studies with Reference to the Phenomenology of Religion. BY OLAFF PETTERSSON and HANS ÅKERBERG. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press Inc., 1981. Pp. 201. $25.00 (paper (1985) (0)
- Book review: Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (1986) (0)
- Book Review: Traditional and New Religion (1992) (0)
- James J Preston (ed.) Mother Worship: Theme and Variations. Pp. xxiv+360.(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.) £16.80. (1983) (0)
- Book Review: Social Justice (1977) (0)
- Perfect Children: Growing Up on the Religious Fringe, by Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist. (2016) (0)
- The objective study of the subjective or the subjective study of the objective?: notes on the social scientific study of religious experience and the social construction of reality (2013) (0)
- Book Review: The Brotherhood (1985) (0)
- Mario Marinov Religious Communities in Bulgaria Blagoevgrad: South-West University Publishing House, 2017. 82 pages. ISBN: 978-954-00- 0108-1. Lv 8.20. (2017) (0)
- The Scriptures of Daesoon Jinrihoe: The Canonical Scripture, The Guiding Compass of Daesoon, and Essentials of Daesoon Jinrihoe. Translated and published by Daesoon Institute of Religion and Culture. Yeoju City: Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea. 2020. (2021) (0)
- Beyond mere toleration: for sects? however small? or seeming strange? (2000) (0)
- Eileen Barker on studying cults (2012) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1979) (0)
- Detlef Pollack, Olaf Müller and Gert Pickel (eds.) The Social Significance of Religion in the Enlarged Europe: Secularization, Individualization and Pluralization. Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. 264+xiii pages. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2621-9. £ 54 (hardback) (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Prophecy and Praxis (1982) (0)
- A general overview of the "cult scene" in Britain (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews (1984) (0)
- In Memoriam: Benjamin Zablocki (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- Cult-watching groups and the construction of images of new religious movements (2007) (0)
- An Introduction to Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (2005) (0)
- Short review and book note (1984) (0)
- Religious and Moral Pluralism (RAMP) (2013) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Agnieszka Pasieka. Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave & Macmillan 2015. 261 + xix pp. ISBN: 978 1 137 50052 6. £ 60. (2015) (0)
- Short History, but many Changes: A New Religious Movement (1987) (0)
- Bryan Ronald Wilson 1926–2004 (2009) (0)
- Sociology (1978) (0)
- The Church Without and the God Within: (2021) (0)
- The Case for Forgiveness in Legal Disputes (2013) (0)
- The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion in England (2018) (0)
- Phil Zuckerman and John H. Shook (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Secularism New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. 792 pages. ISBN: 978-0-199-98845-7 (hardback). £112.50. (2018) (0)
- The Creationist Movement in Modern America@@@Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas: Seventh-Day Adventism and Contemporary Ethics (1992) (0)
- Rights and wrongs of new forms of religiosity in Europe: problems of pluralism in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century (2003) (0)
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