Backlight photography has the possibility of rendering some pretty great effects to photographs but it is quite difficult to do. The key is finding the balance between the backlight and the foreground light that is hitting your subject. Silhouettes are good but many times that is not the effect that people want to go for in backlight photography. Many want both their subject visible and the background to some degree. Here is where you need to balance the lights and let enough backlight in the system for the back glow but not too much so that your subject is rendered blown out or just a black blob in front of the backlight.
The use of backlight photography has been known to bring about emphasis of textures, accentuations of the edges of subjects, a new view to the shape and form of the subject, and changing the mood emphasis for the shot.
From my research I haven't found a tried and true technique for backlighting. I think this is because there are quite a few different ways to use backlight. You can use the sun, strobes, reflectors, etc. So to accurately render the shot you are going for one must go out and practice practice practice!
The links below have some good examples of backlight photographs as well as a slight tutorial of how to get the shot.
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