Barker, Eileen

Barker, Eileen (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, 39-54. ISBN 9780415667975

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.

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). 240-251. ISSN 0021-8294

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

Barker, Eileen (2011) Ageing in new religions: the varieties of later experiences Diskus, 12. 1-23. ISSN 0967-8948

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

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). ISSN 2041-9511

Barker, Eileen (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 & Co Ltd, London, UK, 49-58. ISBN 9781845116866

Barker, Eileen (2009) In and out of place: varieties of religious locations in a globalising world In: Hvithamar, Annika and 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, Leiden, The Netherlands, 235-251. ISBN 9789004178281

Barker, Eileen (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, Farnham, Surrey, UK, 1-11. ISBN 9780754667339

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

Barker, Eileen (2008) Preparing the way: conceptual descriptions and understandings of religion and spirituality in contemporary China. In: Beijing Summit on Chinese Spirituality and Society, 9 Oct 2008, Beijing, China

Barker, Eileen (2007) Religious movements: cult and anticult since Jonestown In: Hamilton, Malcolm, (ed.) Sociology of Religion. Critical concepts in sociology, 5. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 157-177. ISBN 9780415381024

Barker, Eileen (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 (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? . Peter Lang, Bruxelles, Belgium, 371-395 . ISBN 9789052010342

Barker, Eileen (2006) Mapping the territory Religion in the News, 8 (3).

Barker, Eileen (2005) When heresy is treachery, and dirt is religion out of place. In: Religion in the 21st Century, 29-31 August 2005, Copenhagan, Denmark

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, 23-47. ISBN 9789536218165

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) 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, 22-28. ISBN 9780415965774

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. ISSN 1069-4404

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, 215-237.

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

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, 1223-1224. 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, 159. 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, 74-77. ISBN 9781576072233

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, 1356-1361. ISBN 9781576072233

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, 123-148. ISBN 9780511033339 0511033338

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, 58-86. ISBN 9780231124751

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, 1-24. ISBN 9780929182667

Barker, Eileen (2001) A general overview of the "cult scene" in Britain Nova Religio, 4 (2). 235-240. ISSN 1092-6690

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, 44-57. ISBN 9780281051809

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, 10631-10634. ISBN 9780080430768

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. Dress, body, culture. Berg Publishing, Oxford, UK, 51-68. ISBN 9780585435930

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, 39-59.

Barker, Eileen (2000) Foreword In: Fawcett, Liz and Campling, Jo, (eds.) Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change. Pelgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312225674

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, 15-32. ISBN 9780415200509

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

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. Kadoc-Studies, Vol. 2. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789061869672

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

Barker, Eileen (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. Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 181-202. ISBN 0198277210