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J. Gordon Melton is the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California.
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Obres de J. Gordon Melton

VideoHound's Vampires on Video (1997) 50 exemplars
Encylopedia of Occultism & Paprapsychology (1996) — Editor — 37 exemplars
Perspectives on the New Age (1992) 36 exemplars
New Age Almanac (1991) 19 exemplars
New Age Encyclopedia (1990) 12 exemplars
Mormon Faith in America (2003) — Editor — 10 exemplars
The Cult Experience 1 exemplars
Livro Da Nova Era (1999) 1 exemplars
Il libro del soprannaturale (2008) 1 exemplars
Cults in America 1 exemplars
Reiki: tecnica o religione? (2005) 1 exemplars
Directory of Religious Bodies in the United States (1977) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Religious Leaders of America 2 (1999) 1 exemplars

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The New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions: Second Edition (Penguin Reference Books) (1997) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions105 exemplars
America's Alternative Religions (1995) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
Witchcraft, Satanism and Occult Crime: Who's Who and What's What (1989) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions8 exemplars
Handbook of New Age (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion) (2007) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Un-Dead TV: The Ultimate Guide to Vampire Television (2012) — Pròleg — 6 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1942-09-19
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Wyanet, Illinois, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Educació
Birmingham Southern College
Garrett Theological Seminary
Northwestern University
Professions
Methodist Minister
Organitzacions
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
The Transylvanian Society of Dracula
Biografia breu
Dr. Melton is the second most prolific contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

J. Gordon Melton is the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at the Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, and the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion also based in Waco, Texas.

He is the author of more than 35 books, the great majority reference works or scholarly texts in American religious history, including the "Encyclopedia of American Religions" (eighth edition, 2009), and most recently "Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances and Spiritual Commemorations" (2011). He has also written several reference books in Dracula and vampire studies including the award winning "The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead" (third edition 2010).

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Dated (1986) but still interesting. Compiler J. Gordon Melton doesn’t allow a shred of skepticism to creep into his accounts, even when describing people like George Adamski (who conversed telepathically with a man from Venus), William Morrison Branham (who claimed to be a messenger of the last days with the spirit of Elijah), Father Major Jealous Divine (better look him up), Ervil Morrell LeBaron (better look him up, too), James Warren Jones (of Jonestown, Guyana, notoriety), William Miller (who predicted the world would end on October 22, 1844), Cyrus Reed Teed (who taught the Earth was hollow and we live inside it); Melton treats all their claims at face value. (To be fair, I’ve picked out some of the weirder ones in the list above; most of the people were at worst harmless and at best quite decent folks with genuine compassion and love for their fellows. The book concludes with a summary by religious tradition, so if you want to track down Adventists or Methodists or Theosophists, you can. (Scientology is notably absent; perhaps Melton felt it was too risky to get involved with Scientologists, even in a dictionary). No bibliography, but each entry has a list of relevant publications, either by or about the person referenced. Interesting; I wonder if there’s an updated version?… (més)
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setnahkt | Sep 15, 2023 |
The most comprehensive source of vampire knowledge on the market! This is easily the quickest recommendation I can make to any vampire lover and horror fan to expand their collection. This giant encyclopedia closes in on 1000 pages of dictionary-style entries that cover everything you ever needed to know and wanted to know about vampires or vampire adjacent things! I have cruised this book countless times cover to cover, and it shows its age and love well judging by the cover that's peeling and the binding that is cracking. It has held up for over 15 years and is still in fairly acceptable condition. It was made to take a beating and survive a long life, just like its title creature. It explores everything from nonfictional history to fictional entries of vampiric beasts throughout the timeline. Movies, characters, and other famous works are constantly referenced and studied in this book, so you get a fair balance of it all. You have visuals throughout the encyclopedia as well, so it isn't just walls of text on text. The book even comes with an entertaining flipart of a bat flapping its wings in the corners of the pages when you flip through :) I like to have strong opinions on what I read, so this book is far from being boringly exhaustive. This book does not deserve anything less than 5 stars.… (més)
 
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am08279 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Oct 29, 2022 |
Fabulous reference book--great for authors and people interested in the mythology behind vampires.
 
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ecuddy | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Dec 3, 2013 |
This is a fascinating look at all things vampire. Whether you're interested in the folk stories behind vampire, the most popular (pre-Twilight) vampire books/movies/television shows this is a great resource to have.
 
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benuathanasia | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Sep 5, 2012 |

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