Barker, Eileen

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  • Barker, Eileen (2014). The not-so-new religious movements: changes in ‘the cult scene’ over the past forty years. Temenos, 50(2), 235-256.
  • Barker, Eileen (2013). 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. Journal of Chinese Religions, (2), 1-35. picture_as_pdf
  • Meyer, Katherine, Barker, Eileen, Ebaugh, Helen Rose, Juergensmeyer, Mark (2011). Religion in global perspective: SSSR presidential panel. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(2), 240-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01565.x
  • Barker, Eileen (2011). Ageing in new religions: the varieties of later experiences. Diskus, 12, 1-23.
  • Barker, Eileen (2011). Stepping out of the ivory tower:a sociological engagement in ‘the cult wars’. Methodological Innovations Online, 6(1), 18-39.
  • Barker, Eileen (2010). Misconceptions of the religious ‘other’: the importance for human rights of objective and balanced knowledge. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 1(1).
  • Barker, Eileen (2009). New and nonconventional religious movements: implications for social harmony. Review of Faith and International Affairs, 7(3), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2009.9523400
  • Barker, Eileen (2006). Mapping the territory. Religion in the News, 8(3).
  • 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), 201-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768606064329
  • Barker, Eileen (2004). What are we studying? A sociological case for keeping the "Nova". Nova Religio, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.1.88
  • 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), 285-307.
  • Barker, Eileen (2003). Harm and new religious movements: some notes on a sociological perspective. Cultic Studies Review, 2(1).
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). Rights and wrongs of new forms of religiosity in Europe. Temenos, 37-38, 13-38.
  • Barker, Eileen (2001). A general overview of the "cult scene" in Britain. Nova Religio, 4(2), 235-240. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2001.4.2.235
  • Barker, Eileen (2000). Beyond mere toleration. American Baptist Quarterly, vol 19(Decemb), 336-343.
  • Barker, Eileen (1999). But Who's Going to Win? National and Minority Religions in Post-communist Society. Scientific Journal Facta Universitatis, 2(6), 49-74.
  • Barker, Eileen (1995). The scientific study of religion? You must be joking! Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 34(3), 287-310.
  • Barker, Eileen (1986). Religious movements: cult and anticult since Jonestown. Annual Review of Sociology, 12, 329 - 346.
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  • Barker, Eileen (2012). Eileen Barker on studying cults. audio_file
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  • Harvey, Sarah, Barker, Eileen (Eds.) (2025). Health and healing in minority religions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429328831
  • Barker, Eileen (Ed.) (2013). Revisionism and diversification in new religious movements. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Barker, Eileen (Ed.) (2010). Centrality of religion in social life: essays in honour of James A. Beckford. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Barker, Eileen (Ed.) (2008). The centrality of religion in social life: essays in honour of James A. Beckford. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Barker, Eileen (Ed.) (1995). LSE on Freedom. LSE Books.
  • Barker, Eileen (1993). Of gods and men : new religious movements in the West. Mercer University Press.
  • Barker, Eileen (1984). The making of a moonie: choice or brainwashing? Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Barker, Eileen (Ed.) (1982). New religious movements: a perspective for understanding society. Edward Mellen Press.
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  • Barker, Eileen (2025). Introduction: what about my body? Concepts of body, health and healing in minority religions. In Health and Healing in Minority Religions (pp. 1-23). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429328831-1
  • Barker, Eileen (2023). New religious movements yet another great awakening? In Hammond, P. E. (Ed.), The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in the Scientific Study of Religion (pp. 36 - 65). University of California Press.
  • Barker, Eileen (2023). Unification Church. In The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion: 2-volume set (pp. 747-749). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315008516-21
  • Barker, Eileen (2015). New religious movements. In Wright, J. D. (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. p. 805). Elsevier (Firm).
  • Barker, Eileen (2013). Doing sociology: confessions of a professional stranger. In Hjelm, T. & Zuckerman, P. (Eds.), Studying Religion and Society: Sociological Self-Portraits (pp. 39-54). Routledge.
  • Barker, Eileen (2011). Religion in China: some introductory notes for the intrepid Western scholar. In Yang, F. & Lang, G. (Eds.), Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China: Methodology, Theories, and Findings (pp. 109-132). Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Barker, Eileen (2010). The cult as a social problem. In Hjem, T. (Ed.), Religion and Social Problems (pp. 198-212). Routledge.
  • Barker, Eileen (2009). An introduction to 'The devil’s children'. In La Fontaine, J. (Ed.), The Devil's Children: From Spirit Possession to Witchcraft: New Allegations That Affect Children (pp. 1-11). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Barker, Eileen (2009). In god's name: practising unconditional love to the death. In Al-Rasheed, M. & Shterin, M. (Eds.), Dying for Faith: Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World (pp. 49-58). I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Barker, Eileen (2009). In and out of place: varieties of religious locations in a globalising world. In Hvithamar, A., Warburg, M. & Jacobsen, B. A. (Eds.), Holy Nations and Global Identities: Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation (pp. 235-251). Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Barker, Eileen (2007). Religious movements: cult and anticult since Jonestown. In Hamilton, M. (Ed.), Sociology of Religion (pp. 157 - 177). Routledge.
  • Barker, Eileen (2007). Cult-watching groups and the construction of images of new religious movements. In Bromley, D. G. (Ed.), Teaching New Religions Movements (pp. 309-330). Oxford University Press.
  • Barker, Eileen (2007). Preface. In Kosmin, B. A. & Keysar, A. (Eds.), Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives (pp. iii-iv). Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.). Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture.
  • Barker, Eileen (2006). What should we do about the cults? Policies, information and the perspective of INFORM. In Côté, P. & Gunn, J. (Eds.), The New Religious Question: State Regulation or State Interference? (pp. 371-395). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Barker, Eileen (2005). Crossing the boundary: new challenges to religious authority and control as a consequence of access to the internet. In Hojsgaard, M. T. & Warburg, M. (Eds.), Religion and Cyberspace (pp. 67-85). Routledge.
  • Barker, Eileen (2004). General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain. In Lucas, P. C. & Robbins, T. (Eds.), New Religious Movements in the 21st Century: Legal, Political and Social Challenges in Global Perspective (pp. 22-28). Routledge.
  • Barker, Eileen (2004). Why the cults? New religions and freedom of religion and beliefs. In Lindholm, T., Durham, W. C. & Tahzib-Lie, B. (Eds.), Facilitating Freedom of Religion and Belief: Perspectives, Impulses and Recommendations From the Oslo Coalition . Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Barker, Eileen (2004). The church without and the God within: religiosity and/or spirituality? In Jerolimov, D. M., Zrinščak, S. & Borowick, I. (Eds.), Religion and Patterns of Social Transformation (pp. 23-47). Institute for Social Research in Zagreb.
  • 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 (pp. 215-237). Wallstein Verlag.
  • Barker, Eileen (2003). The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must be Joking! In Dawson, L. L. (Ed.), Cults and New Religious Movements: a Reader (pp. 7-25). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). Armenia. In Melton, J. G. & Bauman, M. (Eds.), Religions of the World: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (pp. 74-77). ABC-CLIO.
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). Brahma Kumari. In Melton, J. G. & Bauman, M. (Eds.), Religions of the World: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (pp. p. 159). ABC-CLIO.
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). Subud. In Melton, J. G. & Bauman, M. (Eds.), Religions of the World: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (pp. 1223-1224). ABC-CLIO.
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). United Kingdom. In Melton, J. G. & Bauman, M. (Eds.), Religions of the World: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (pp. 1356-1361). ABC-CLIO.
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). Cult-watching Practices and Consequences in Europe and North America. In Davis, D. & Besier, G. (Eds.), International Perspectives of Freedom and Equality of Religious Belief (pp. 1-24). Baylor University. J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State.
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). Watching for violence: a comparative analysis of five cult-watching groups. In Bromley, D. G. & Melton, J. G. (Eds.), Cults, Religion and Violence (pp. 123-148). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521660645
  • Barker, Eileen (2002). The protection of minority religions in Eastern Europe. In Danchin, P. G. & Cole, E. A. (Eds.), Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe (pp. 58-86). Columbia University Press.
  • Barker, Eileen (2001). New religious movements. In Smelser, N. J., Baltes, P. B. & Sills, D. L. (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 10631-10634). Pergamon (Firm).
  • 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 (pp. 44-57). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain).
  • Barker, Eileen (2001). INFORM: bringing the sociology of religion to the public space. In Côté, P. (Ed.), Frontier Religions in Public Space (pp. 21-34). University of Ottawa Press.
  • Barker, Eileen (2001). A comparative exploration of dress and the presentation of self as implicit religion. In Keenan, W. J. F. (Ed.), Dressed to Impress : Looking the Part (pp. 51-68). Berg (Firm).
  • Barker, Eileen (2000). Foreword. In Fawcett, L. & Campling, J. (Eds.), Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Barker, Eileen (2000). The opium wars of the new millennium: religion in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. In Silk, M. (Ed.), Religion on the International News Agenda (pp. 39-59). Pew Program on Religion and the News Media.
  • Barker, Eileen (1999). Taking Two to Tango : The New Religious Movements and Sociology. In Voye, L. & Billiet, J. (Eds.), Sociology and Religions: an Ambiguous Relationship . Universitaire Pers Leuven.
  • Barker, Eileen (1999). New religious movements. In Bullock, A., Trombley, S. & Lawrie, A. (Eds.), The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought . Harper Collins.
  • Barker, Eileen (1999). New religious movements: their incidence and significance. In Wilson, B. & Cresswell, J. (Eds.), New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response (pp. 15-32). Routledge.
  • Barker, Eileen (1998). Changes in new religious movements. In Fuss, M. A. (Ed.), Rethinking New Religious Movements . Pontificia Università gregoriana. Centre "Cultures and Religions".
  • Barker, Eileen (1998). State imposed secularism: yet another dimension? In Billiet, J., Laermans, R. & Wilson, B. (Eds.), Secularization and Social Integration: Papers in Honor of Karel Dobbelaere (pp. 191-210). Universitaire Pers Leuven.
  • Barker, Eileen (1993). Charismatization: the social production of `an ethos propitious to the mobilization of sentiments'. In Beckford, J. T. & Dobbelaere, K. (Eds.), Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism: Essays in Honour of Bryan R. Wilson (pp. 181-202). Oxford University Press.
  • Barker, Eileen (1979). In the beginning: the battle of creation science against evolutionism. In Wallis, R. (Ed.), On the Margins of Science: the Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge (pp. 179-200). University of Keele.
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  • Barker, Eileen (2005-08-29 - 2005-08-31) When heresy is treachery, and dirt is religion out of place [Paper]. Religion in the 21st Century, Copenhagan, Denmark, DNK.
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  • Barker, Eileen Jagodzinski, Wolfgang Dobbelaere, Karel, Voyé, Liliane, Riis, Ole, Heino, Harri, Holm, Nils, Tomka, Miklos, Tomasi, Luigi & Halman, Loek et al (2013). Religious and Moral Pluralism (RAMP). [Dataset]. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11633
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  • Barker, Eileen (1999). New religious movements. (Farmington Papers MT12). Farmington Institute.