Eileen Barker - Definition and Overview

Eileen Barker is a professor in sociology and is a member of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. She is the chairperson of the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform) and wrote studies about cults and new religious movements.

Some anti-cult activists like Rick Ross and the Christian countercult activist Anton Hein believe that she is not critical enough about cults.

Bibliography

• The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?, Blackwell Publishers, November 1984, ASIN 0631132465

Related topics

• Unification Church

External links

• Professor Eileen Barker page (http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/e.barker@lse.ac.uk/) at the London School of Economics
• An Introduction to New Religious Movements (http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:-EaAH4xBufwC:www.chaplaincy.ic.ac.uk/images/nrm_by_eb.pdf+Eileen+Barker+moonies&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) by Eileen Barker