Barker, Eileen
Professor Eileen Barker OBE, FBA
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Experience keywords:
former Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; new religious movements; new age; Armenian republic and diaspora; cults; religious pluralism; religious minority rights; religion; sects
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New Religious Movements ('cults', 'sects'), especially in Eastern and Western Europe, and North America. Religious situation in former communist countries.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Europe; Eastern Europe; Armenia
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Shterin, Marat and Barker, Eileen, (eds.) (2012) New religious movements within Islam. Ashgate, London, UK. Meyer, Katherine and Barker, Eileen and Ebaugh, Helen Rose and Juergensmeyer, Mark (2011) Religion in global perspective: SSSR presidential panel. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50 (2). pp. 240-251. ISSN 0021-8294 Barker, Eileen (2007) Cult-watching groups and the construction of images of new religious movements. In: Bromley, D. G, (ed.) Teaching new religions movements. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 309-330. ISBN 9780195177299 Barker, Eileen (2006) We've got to draw the line somewhere: an exploration of boundaries that define locations of religious identity. Social compass, 53 (2). pp. 201-213. ISSN 0037-7686 Barker, Eileen (2005) When heresy is treachery, and dirt is religion out of place. In:. Barker, Eileen (2005) Crossing the boundary: new challenges to religious authority and control as a consequence of access to the internet. In: Hojsgaard, Morten T. and Warburg, Margit, (eds.) Religion and cyberspace. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 67-85. ISBN 9780415357630 Barker, Eileen (2004) What are we Studying? A Sociological Case for Keeping the "Nova". Nova religio, 8 (3). ISSN 1092-6690 Barker, Eileen (2004) Why the cults? New religions and freedom of religion and beliefs. In: Lindholm, Tore and Durham, W. Cole and Tahzib-Lie, Bahia, (eds.) Facilitating freedom of religion and belief: perspectives, impulses and recommendations from the Oslo Coalition. Kluwer, Dordecht NL. Barker, Eileen (2004) The church without and the God within: religiosity and/or spirituality? In: Jerolimov, Dinka Marinović and Zrinščak, Siniša and Borowick, Irena, (eds.) Religion and patterns of social transformation. Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, pp. 23-47. ISBN 9789536218165 Barker, Eileen (2004) General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain. In: Lucas, Philip C and Robbins, Thomas, (eds.) New Religious Movements in the 21st Century: Legal , Political and Social Challenges in Global Perspective. Routledge, London, pp. 27-34. ISBN http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t738277805~db=all Barker, Eileen (2003) Rights and wrongs of new forms of religiosity in Europe: problems of pluralism in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. In: Lehmann, H., (ed.) Multireligiosiät im vereinten Europa: historische und juristische aspekte. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, pp. 215-237. Barker, Eileen (2003) The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must be Joking!. In: Dawson, Lorne, L, (ed.) Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 7-25. Barker, Eileen (2003) Harm and new religious movements: some notes on a sociological perspective. Cultic studies review, 2 (1). ISSN 1539-0152 Barker, Eileen (2003) And the wisdom to know the difference? Freedom, control and the sociology of religion (Association for the Sociology of Religion 2002 presidential address). Sociology of religion, 64 (3). pp. 285-307. ISSN 1069-4404 Barker, Eileen (2002) United Kingdom. In: Melton, J. Gordon and Bauman, Martin, (eds.) Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, USA, pp. 1356-1361. ISBN 9781576072233 Barker, Eileen (2002) Brahma Kumari. In: Melton, J. Gordon and Bauman, Martin, (eds.) Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, USA. ISBN 9781576072233 Barker, Eileen (2002) Subud. In: Melton, J. Gordon and Bauman, Martin, (eds.) Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, USA, pp. 1223-1224. ISBN 9781576072233 Barker, Eileen (2002) Armenia. In: Melton, J. Gordon and Bauman, Martin, (eds.) Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, USA, pp. 74-77. ISBN 9781576072233 Barker, Eileen (2002) Cult-watching Practices and Consequences in Europe and North America. In: Davis, D. and Besier, G., (eds.) International perspectives of freedom and equality of religious belief. J. W. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9780929182667 Barker, Eileen (2002) The protection of minority religions in Eastern Europe. In: Danchin, Peter G. and Cole, Elizabeth A., (eds.) Protecting the human rights of religious minorities in Eastern Europe. Columbia University Press, New York, USA, pp. 58-86. ISBN 9780231124751 Barker, Eileen (2002) Watching for Violence : A Comparative Analysis of Five Cult-watching Groups. In: Bromley, D. G. and Melton, J. G., (eds.) Cults, Religion and Violence. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York, pp. 123-148. ISBN 9780511033339 0511033338 Barker, Eileen (2002) Rights and wrongs of new forms of religiosity in Europe. Temenos, 37-38 pp. 13-38. ISSN 0497-1817 Barker, Eileen (2001) New religious movements. In: Smelser, Neil. J and Baltes, Paul. B and Sills, D. L, (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Science: Pergamon, Amsterdam, pp. 10631-10634. ISBN 9780080430768 Barker, Eileen (2001) A general overview of the "cult scene" in Britain. Nova religio, 4 (2). pp. 235-240. ISSN 1092-6690 Barker, Eileen (2001) A comparative exploration of dress and the presentation of self as implicit religion. In: Keenan, William. J. F, (ed.) Dressed to impress : looking the part. Berg Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9780585435930 Barker, Eileen (2001) Bringing them in: some observations on methods of recruitment employed by new religious movements. In: Percy, M., (ed.) Previous convictions: conversion in the present day. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, UK, pp. 44-57. ISBN 9780281051809 Barker, Eileen (2001) INFORM: bringing the sociology of religion to the public space. In: Côté, Pauline, (ed.) Frontier religions in public space. University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 21-34. ISBN 276030535x Barker, Eileen (2000) Foreword. In: Fawcett, Liz and Campling, Jo, (eds.) Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change. Pelgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312225674 Barker, Eileen (2000) Beyond mere toleration. American baptist quarterly, vol 19 (Decemb). pp. 336-343. ISSN 0745-3698 Barker, Eileen (2000) The opium wars of the new millennium: religion in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. In: Silk, Mark, (ed.) Religion on the international news agenda. Pew Program on Religion and the News Media, Hartford, Conn, pp. 39-59. Barker, Eileen (1999) Taking Two to Tango : The New Religious Movements and Sociology. In: Voye, L. and Billiet, J., (eds.) Sociology and Religions: An Ambiguous Relationship. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789061869672 Barker, Eileen (1999) But Who's Going to Win? National and Minority Religions in Post-communist Society. The scientific Journal Facta universitatis, 2 (6). pp. 49-74. ISSN 1820-8509 Barker, Eileen (1999) New religious movements: their incidence and significance. In: Wilson, Bryan and Cresswell, Jamie, (eds.) New religious movements: challenge and response. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 15-32. ISBN 9780415200509
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