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    Eileen Vartan Barker OBE FBA (born 21 April 1938, in Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE)...
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    ISBN 9780815314288. Eileen Barker, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? (1984; repr., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), 2. [ISBN missing] Eileen Barker, "General...
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    "New Age" ideas) have become part of worldwide mainstream culture. Eileen Barker has argued that NRMs should not be "lumped together," as they differ...
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  • medievalist Eileen Tabios (born 1960), Filipino-American writer and artist Eileen Wilks (born 1952), American fiction writer Eileen Barker (born 1938)...
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  • Choice or Brainwashing? is a 1984 book written by British sociologist Eileen Barker. The book describes the religious conversion process to the Unification...
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    studies was The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? by Eileen Barker (1984). Barker could find no evidence that Moonie recruits were ever kidnapped...
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  • film characters. Glenn Berggoetz as Johnny, Petey, Dr. Lars Coolman Eileen Barker as Laduelia Stuart Goldstein as Bobby Haidyn Harvey as Erica Bryce Foster...
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  • School of Economics. It was founded by the sociologist of religion, Eileen Barker, with start-up funding from the British Home Office and Britain's mainstream...
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  • 2006. Barker, Eileen. The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?. 1984. Reprint, Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Barker, Eileen. New...
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  • that moral panics always include the deviancy amplification spiral. Eileen Barker asserts that the controversy surrounding certain new religious movements...
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  • group believes this will ultimately actualize its doomsday scenario." Eileen Barker has compared these concepts to the notion of a deviancy amplification...
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  • historical perspective," in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, Routledge, London...
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  • Penguin Dictionary of Religions. Extract by Eileen Barker. Rosen, New York. ISBN 0-14-051261-6. Barker, Eileen (1989). New Religious Movement: A Practical...
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  • which case they are distinct from pre-existing denominations. In 1999, Eileen Barker estimated that NRMs, of which some but not all have been labelled as...
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    subsequently acknowledged by sociologists such as Douglas E. Cowan and Eileen Barker. From his college days, Melton developed an interest in the subject...
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    studies was The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? by Eileen Barker (1984). Barker could find no evidence that Moonie recruits were ever kidnapped...
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  • institutionalization is endorsed by several academic sociologists. Eileen Barker discusses the tendency for new religious movements to have founders...
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  • Kate Barker (born Arizona Donnie Clark; October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935), better known as Ma Barker (and sometimes known as Arizona Barker and Arrie...
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    many of the religiously unaffiliated have some religious beliefs. Eileen Barker, 1999, "New Religious Movements: their incidence and significance",...
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  • Western Europe by Massimo Introvigne” ISKON Communications Journal, 5(2) Eileen Barker, 1999, "New Religious Movements: their incidence and significance",...
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    historical perspective", in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson (Routledge, London...
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    Bryan Wilson and Jamie Cresswell editors, Routledge ISBN 0415200504 Eileen Barker, 1999, "New Religious Movements: their incidence and significance",...
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  • CESNUR's board include Luigi Berzano, Gianni Ambrosio, Reender Kranenborg, Eileen Barker and J. Gordon Melton. Berzano, who later became CESNUR's president,...
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  • psychiatry, history, psychology, sociology, religious studies, and theology. Eileen Barker noted that there are five sources of information on new religious movements...
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  • presidents of the ASR include David G. Bromley, James T. Richardson, Eileen Barker Benton Johnson, and Christopher G. Ellison. 1938: Ralph A. Gallagher...
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  • English cartoonist Edwin Barker (born 1954), American classical bassist Eileen Barker (born 1938), British sociologist Elinor Barker (born 1994), British...
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    youngest sister amongst her siblings). Barker's elder sister Vera was born in 1926 and his younger sister Eileen was born in 1933. His father was a clerk...
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    Sentes thought was "probably inflated". In Britain, the sociologist Eileen Barker said that there were "only a dozen or so" committed members of the religion...
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  • demands of their abductors are satisfied. According to sociologist Eileen Barker, "One does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence:...
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    Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West. Macon edited by Eileen Barker, GA: Mercer University Press, (1984), ISBN 0-86554-095-0 pages 303-308...
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