John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American...

ISBN 978-0791412138. Lewis, James R.; Melton, J. Gordon (1992). "Introduction". In James R. Lewis; J. Gordon Melton (eds.). Perspectives on the New Age...

Hermeneutics (with Daniel J. Meckel; Paulist Press, 1990). Self and Liberation: The Jung-Buddhist Dialogue (with Daniel J. Meckel; Paulist Press, 1992)...

Guru". Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Encyclopedia of World Religions. J. Gordon Melton, Series Editor. New York: Facts On File. pp. 411–412. ISBN 978-0-8160-5458-9...

on Scientology in his book World Religions in America. According to J. Gordon Melton, "Scientologists aim to utterly remake the world instead of taking...

According to Perspectives on the New Age edited by James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton and published in 1992, the Advanced Ability Center formed in Milan...

are also "I AM" musicals that are free for listening over the web. J. Gordon Melton, an American religious scholar, studied the group and ranked it in...

Fifth Edition, ed. J. Gordon Melton, Gale group, vol 2, p. 1327-1328 Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America by J. Gordon Melton, Routledge, p.99-100...

growing popularity of new religious movements on the Internet. In 2006 J. Gordon Melton, executive director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions...

Long 2009, pp. 26, 42. Potter 2007, pp. 35–36. Dundas 2002, p. 22. J Gordon Melton 2011, p. 255. Jeffery D. Long 2009, p. 42. Jyotindra Jain & Eberhard...

their religion within mainstream Christian teaching, according to J. Gordon Melton, and reject any identification with the New Thought movement. Eddy...

important and widely cited studies of the process of religious conversion. J. Gordon Melton stated that, in 1970, "one could count the number of active researchers...

ISBN 0-8103-8878-2. Melton, J. Gordon (2000). American Religions: An Illustrated History. Santa Barbara, Ca: ABC-Clio. Melton, J. Gordon, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia...

Journal of English Language and Literatur: 72 – via researchgate.net. J. Gordon Melton (2011). Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals...

Religions, renamed Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions in the eighth edition, is a reference book edited by J. Gordon Melton (editor-in-chief)...

Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 99 J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia...

ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2 September 2023. Constance A Jones (2011). J. Gordon Melton (ed.). Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals...

Mahadevi Durga". Times of India. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2022. J. Gordon Melton; Baumann, Martin (2010). Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia...

Charismatic Christianity, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2013, page 117 J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia...

Luigi Berzano, Gianni Ambrosio, Reender Kranenborg, Eileen Barker and J. Gordon Melton. Berzano, who later became CESNUR's president, is a professor of sociology...

(2004). The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements. Introduction by J. Gordon Melton. Oxford University Press. pp. 427, 541. ISBN 0-19-514986-6. Lewis,...

Hindu religions, in particular the Radha Soami movement. However, J. Gordon Melton finds significant differences between Radha Soami teachings and Eckankar...

Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult...

(2007). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Encyclopedia of World Religions. J. Gordon Melton, Series Editor. New York: Facts On File. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-8160-5458-9...

Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 99 J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia...

(Elan Vital) are considered to be part of the Sant Mat tradition by J. Gordon Melton, Lucy DuPertuis, and Vishal Mangalwadi, but that characterization is...

sign, as were larger than normal ears, teeth or eyes. According to J. Gordon Melton, from his book, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, in...

figure is known to be an aggrandizing fabrication. Religious scholar J. Gordon Melton has said that the organization's estimates of its membership numbers...

if wayward and diminished, divine institution. Religious scholar J. Gordon Melton characterised the group as "the more liberal branch of the Fundamentalist...

Hinduism: A–M (PDF). The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0823931798. J. Gordon Melton (2011). Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals...