Items where Author is "Barker, Eileen"

Article

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2014) The not-so-new religious movements: changes in ‘the cult scene’ over the past forty years. Temenos, 50 (2). pp. 235-256. ISSN 2342-7256

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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). pp. 1-35.

Meyer, Katherine, Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204, 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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2011) Ageing in new religions: the varieties of later experiences. Diskus, 12. pp. 1-23. ISSN 0967-8948

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2011) Stepping out of the ivory tower:a sociological engagement in ‘the cult wars’. Methodological Innovations Online, 6 (1). pp. 18-39. ISSN 1748-0612

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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). ISSN 2041-9511

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2009) New and nonconventional religious movements: implications for social harmony. Review of Faith and International Affairs, 7 (3). pp. 3-10. ISSN 1557-0274

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2006) Mapping the territory. Religion in the News, 8 (3).

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2004) What are we studying? A sociological case for keeping the "Nova". Nova Religio, 8 (3). ISSN 1092-6690

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2003) Harm and new religious movements: some notes on a sociological perspective. Cultic Studies Review, 2 (1). ISSN 1539-0152

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2002) Rights and wrongs of new forms of religiosity in Europe. Temenos, 37-38. pp. 13-38. ISSN 2342-7256

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2001) A general overview of the "cult scene" in Britain. Nova Religio, 4 (2). pp. 235-240. ISSN 1092-6690

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2000) Beyond mere toleration. American Baptist Quarterly, vol 19 (Decemb). pp. 336-343. ISSN 0745-3698

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1999) But Who's Going to Win? National and Minority Religions in Post-communist Society. Scientific Journal Facta Universitatis, 2 (6). pp. 49-74. ISSN 1820-8509

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1995) The scientific study of religion? You must be joking! Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 34 (3). pp. 287-310. ISSN 0021-8294

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1986) Religious movements: cult and anticult since Jonestown. Annual Review of Sociology, 12. 329 - 346. ISSN 0360-0572

Book Section

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2023) New religious movements: yet another great awakening? In: Hammond, Phillip E., (ed.) The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in the Scientific Study of Religion. University of California Press, 36 - 65. ISBN 9780520366770

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2023) Unification Church. In: The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion: 2-volume set. Taylor and Francis, pp. 747-749. ISBN 0415187400

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2015) New religious movements. In: Wright, James D., (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier (Firm), Oxford, UK, p. 805. ISBN 9780080970875

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2013) Doing sociology: confessions of a professional stranger. In: Hjelm, Titus and Zuckerman, Phil, (eds.) Studying Religion and Society: Sociological Self-Portraits. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 39-54. ISBN 9780415667975

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2011) Religion in China: some introductory notes for the intrepid Western scholar. In: Yang, Fenggang and Lang, Graeme, (eds.) Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China: Methodology, Theories, and Findings. Religion in Chinese Societies. Brill Academic Publishers, Boston, USA, pp. 109-132. ISBN 9789004182462

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2010) The cult as a social problem. In: Hjem, Titus, (ed.) Religion and Social Problems. Routledge Advances in Sociology. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 198-212. ISBN 9780415800563

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2009) An introduction to 'The devil’s children'. In: La Fontaine, Jean, (ed.) The Devil's Children: From Spirit Possession to Witchcraft: New Allegations That Affect Children. Ashgate Dartmouth, Farnham, Surrey, UK, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9780754667339

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2009) In god's name: practising unconditional love to the death. In: Al-Rasheed, Madawi and Shterin, Marat, (eds.) Dying for Faith: Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World. Library of Modern Religion. I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, UK, pp. 49-58. ISBN 9781845116866

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2009) In and out of place: varieties of religious locations in a globalising world. In: Hvithamar, Annika, Warburg, Margit and Jacobsen, Brian Arly, (eds.) Holy Nations and Global Identities: Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation. International Studies in Religion and Society (10). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 235-251. ISBN 9789004178281

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2007) Religious movements: cult and anticult since Jonestown. In: Hamilton, Malcolm, (ed.) Sociology of Religion. Critical Concepts in Sociology. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 157 - 177. ISBN 9780415381024

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2007) Preface. In: Kosmin, Barry A. and Keysar, Ariela, (eds.) Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Hartford, USA, iii-iv. ISBN 9780979481604

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2006) What should we do about the cults? Policies, information and the perspective of INFORM. In: Côté, Pauline and Gunn, Jeremy, (eds.) The New Religious Question: State Regulation or State Interference? Verlag Peter Lang, Bruxelles, Belgium, pp. 371-395. ISBN 9789052010342

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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. 22-28. ISBN 9780415965774

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2004) Why the cults? New religions and freedom of religion and beliefs. In: Lindholm, Tore, Durham, W. Cole and Tahzib-Lie, Bahia, (eds.) Facilitating Freedom of Religion and Belief: Perspectives, Impulses and Recommendations From the Oslo Coalition. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordecht NL.

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2004) The church without and the God within: religiosity and/or spirituality? In: Jerolimov, Dinka Marinović, 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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2003) The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must be Joking! In: Dawson, Lorne, L, (ed.) Cults and New Religious Movements: a Reader. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, pp. 7-25.

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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, p. 159. ISBN 9781576072233

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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. Baylor University. J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State, Waco, Texas, USA, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9780929182667

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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, pp. 123-148. ISBN 9780511033339 0511033338

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2001) New religious movements. In: Smelser, Neil. J, Baltes, Paul. B and Sills, D. L, (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Pergamon (Firm), Amsterdam, pp. 10631-10634. ISBN 9780080430768

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 (Great Britain), London, UK, pp. 44-57. ISBN 9780281051809

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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. Dress, body, culture. Berg (Firm), Oxford, UK, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9780585435930

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2000) Foreword. In: Fawcett, Liz and Campling, Jo, (eds.) Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312225674

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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 ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1999) Taking Two to Tango : The New Religious Movements and Sociology. In: Voye, L. and Billiet, J., (eds.) Sociology and Religions: an Ambiguous Relationship. Kadoc-Studies. Universitaire Pers Leuven. ISBN 9789061869672

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1999) New religious movements. In: Bullock, Alan, Trombley, Stephen and Lawrie, Alf, (eds.) The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought. Harper Collins, London, UK. ISBN 9780002558716

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (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

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1998) Changes in new religious movements. In: Fuss, Michael A., (ed.) Rethinking New Religious Movements. Pontificia Università gregoriana. Centre "Cultures and Religions", Rome, Italy.

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1998) State imposed secularism: yet another dimension? In: Billiet, J., Laermans, R. and Wilson, B., (eds.) Secularization and Social Integration: Papers in Honor of Karel Dobbelaere. Sociology Today. Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 191-210. ISBN 9789061869320

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1993) Charismatization: the social production of `an ethos propitious to the mobilization of sentiments'. In: Beckford, James T. and Dobbelaere, Karel, (eds.) Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism: Essays in Honour of Bryan R. Wilson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 181-202. ISBN 0198277210

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1979) In the beginning: the battle of creation science against evolutionism. In: Wallis, Roy, (ed.) On the Margins of Science: the Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge. Sociological Review Monographs (21). University of Keele, Keele, UK, pp. 179-200. ISBN 9780904425062

Monograph

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1999) New religious movements. Farmington Papers (MT12). Farmington Institute, Oxford.

Conference or Workshop Item

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2005) When heresy is treachery, and dirt is religion out of place. In: Religion in the 21st Century, 2005-08-29 - 2005-08-31, Copenhagan, Denmark, DNK. (Submitted)

Book

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1993) Of gods and men : new religious movements in the West. Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, USA. ISBN 9780865540958

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (1984) The making of a moonie: choice or brainwashing? Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631132462

Audio/visual resource

Barker, Eileen ORCID: 0000-0001-5247-7204 (2012) Eileen Barker on studying cults. Religious Studies Project.