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Eileen Barker  

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  • Eileen Barker, a longtime professor at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), is perhaps the best known sociologist of religion in the area of new religious movements (NRMs). She has produced a prodigious amount of scholarship in the area, as well as establishing in 1988 the now well-recognized INFORM at LSE. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Barker, Eileen (b. 1938)]

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