J. Gordon Melton | Academic Influence

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According to Wikipedia, John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he resides. He is also an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and is a supporter of the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church.

J. Gordon Melton's Published Works

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Published Papers

The encyclopedia of American religions (148)
Spiritualization and reaffirmation: what really happens when prophecy fails (73)
The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead (59)
Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (55)
Shinto (47)
Cults, religion, and violence (40)
Perspective: Toward a Definition of "New Religion" (33)
Religions of the world : a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices (32)
The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism (30)
New Age Encyclopedia (26)
New Age Almanac (21)
Another Look at New Religions (17)
The Changing Scene of New Religious Movements: Observations from a Generation of Research (16)
Prime-Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting (15)
Encyclopedia Of Protestantism (14)
A will to choose : the origins of African American Methodism (12)
An Introduction to New Religions (12)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Challenging Misconceptions about the New Religions–Violence Connection (10)
The Encyclopedia of American Religions@@@A Directory of Religious Bodies in the United States (10)
Sex, Slander, and Salvation: Investigating the Family/Children of God (10)
Beyond Millennialism: The New Age Transformed (9)
Public Agency Involvement in Government–Religious Movement Confrontations (9)
Melton's encyclopedia of American religions (9)
Encyclopedia of new religions : new religious movements, sects and alternative spiritualities (8)
Reconceptualizing Types of Religious Organization: Dominant, Sectarian, Alternative, and Emergent Tradition Groups (8)
The Fate of NRMs and their Detractors in Twenty-first Century America (7)
Christian Churches (6)
Religious Leaders of America: A Biographical Guide to Founders and Leaders of Religious Bodies, Churches,and Spiritual Groups in North America (6)
Magic, witchcraft, and paganism in America : a bibliography : compiled from the files of the Institute for the Study of American Religion (6)
Perspective: New New Religions: Revisiting a Concept (6)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Lessons from the Past, Perspective for the Future (5)
The Churches speak on--abortion : official statements from religious bodies and ecumenical organizations (5)
Religious celebrations : an encyclopedia of holidays, festivals, solemn observances, and spiritual commemorations (5)
Encyclopedia of African American Religions (5)
Introducing and Defining the Concept of a New Religion (5)
Religious Pluralism: Problems and Prospects (5)
Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology (4)
Emerging Religious Movements in North America: Some Missiological Reflections (4)
The Churches speak on capital punishment : official statements from religious bodies and ecumenical organizations (4)
Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders (4)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Prologue (3)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Violence and Religion in Perspective (3)
The Encyclopedia of American religions, religious creeds : a compilation of more than 400 creeds, confessions, statements of faith, and summaries of doctrine of religious and spiritual groups in the United States and Canada (3)
Protestant Faith in America (3)
Faiths across time : 5,000 years of religious history (2)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Frontmatter (2)
Islam in North America : A Sourcebook (2)
American Religions: An Illustrated History (1)
Modern Alternative Religions in the West (1)
An Initial Response to the Call for Reframing the History of New Religious Movements (1)
Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult:Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult. (1)
Pentecostalism Comes to China: Laying the Foundations for a Chinese Version of Christianity (0)
Unclassified Religious Organizations (0)
The encyclopedia of American religions, third edition, Supplement (0)
Metaphysical/Ancient Wisdom/New Age Periodicals (0)
Rosicrucianism in America (0)
New Age Encyclopedia@@@UFOs in the 1980s: The UFO Encyclopedia (0)
Paschal Beverly Randolph: America’s pioneer occultist (0)
New Religious Movements in America (0)
Directory of Religious Organizations in the United States (0)
A Directory of Islamic Organizations and Centers in North America (0)
THE 21 ST CENTURY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD RELIGION (2002) (0)
Metaphysical/Ancient Wisdom/New Age (0)
Chapter Two. History As A Factor In The Social Scientific Study Of Chinese Religion (0)
Buddhist Faith in America (0)
Muslim Periodicals (0)
The Affirmation of Charismatic Authority: The Case of the True Buddha School (0)
Jewish Periodicals (0)
The encyclopedia of American religions, fourth edition, Supplement (0)
Religious Bodies in the United States: A Directory (0)
"Diversity in Early Pentecostalism: the Role of Theological, Ethnic, and Racial Divisions in Shaping Texas Pentecostalism" (0)
Dr. Henry Morgentaler, ‘Arch-Abortionist’ and Humanist: An Unbeliever’s Pro-choice Campaign in Quebec and Canada (0)
Religious Information Sources: A Worldwide Guide (0)
American Religious Creeds (0)
An Annotated Bibliography of Publications About the Life and Work of John Wesley, 1791-1966 (0)
Buddhist Periodicals (0)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Acknowledgments (0)
Periodicals of the Unclassified Religious Groups (0)

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