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Eileen Vartan Barker OBE, (born 21 April 1938, Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is the chairperson and founder of the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (INFORM) and has written studies about groups she defines as cults and new religious movements (NRMs). ==Academic career== She has been involved with the LSE's sociology department, where she received her PhD, since 1970. In 1988, she was engaged in research on the preservation of cultural identity in the Armenian diaspora.〔 In the same year she founded the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (INFORM), with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury and financial help from the British Home Office. Eileen Barker has held numerous positions of leadership in the academic study of religion. She was Chairperson of the British Sociological Association's Study Group for the Sociology of Religion from 1985 to 1990, President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion from 1991 to 1993 (the first non-American to hold that office), and President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion from 2001 to 2002.〔James A. Beckford and James T. (Jim) Richardson, eds., ''Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker'' (London: Routledge, 2003), p. 5〕 In 2000, Barker was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and named by the American Academy of Religion to receive its Martin E. Marty Award for Contributions to the Public Understanding of Religion.〔http://www.aarweb.org/news/pressrelease/2000----marty.asp Scholar Honored for Contributions to the Public Understanding of Religion〕 As of 2009, Barker is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Cultic Studies Association's ''Cultic Studies Review''.〔(Cultic Studies Review Editorial Board ), Eileen Barker, PhD, International Cultic Studies Association, Web site., 2006.〕 The Editorial Review Board of the ''Cultic Studies Review'' contributes to the process of peer review of the academic journal.〔(Announcing Cultic Studies Review ), Michael D. Langone, PhD (Editor), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002, International Cultic Studies Association "By taking over the functions of these three periodicals, CSR is able to offer peer-reviewed, scholarly articles, news on groups and topics (e.g., children and cultic groups), opinion columns, personal accounts of ex-members, and high quality articles for laypersons".〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eileen Barker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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