# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eileen-barker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:23.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eileen-barker"
name: "Eileen Barker"
slug: "eileen-barker"
description: "Eileen Vartan Barker 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 cults and new religious movements."
tagline: "British professor of sociology (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eileen_Barker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.12
  momentum:             4.444444444444442
  historical:           7.879986666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "إيلين باركر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Barkerov%C3%A1"
    title: "Eileen Barkerová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Barker"
    title: "Eileen Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Barker"
    title: "Eileen Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Barker"
    title: "Eileen Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Баркер, Айлин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Barker"
    title: "Eileen Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Barker"
    title: "Eileen Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368784"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump