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

Rick Ross and other anti-cult / counter-cult activists have labelled Barker a "cult apologist". Anton Hein said 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 at the London School of Economics
• An Introduction to New Religious Movements by Eileen Barker