J. Gordon Melton
Auteur de The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
A propos de l'auteur
J. Gordon Melton is the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California.
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Œuvres de J. Gordon Melton
Nelson's Guide to Denominations: The Primary Resource for Understanding and Navigating America's Christian… (2007) 115 exemplaires
The Church of Scientology (Studies in Contemporary Religions, series volume 1) (1998) 20 exemplaires
Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Vol. 212) (1986) 16 exemplaires
Religious Celebrations [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual… (2011) 10 exemplaires
Log cabins to steeples; the complete story of the United Methodist way in Illinois, including all constituent elements… (1974) 9 exemplaires
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015) 7 exemplaires
The Churches speak on AIDS : official statements from religious bodies and ecumenical organizations (1989) 5 exemplaires
The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Religious Creeds (Encyclopedia of American Religions 2nd ed Volume 2)… (1993) 5 exemplaires
Religious Leaders of America: A Biographical Guide to Founders and Leaders of Religious Bodies, Churches, and Spiritual… (1991) 5 exemplaires
American Religious Creeds: An Essential Compendium of More Than 450 Statements of Belief and Doctrine (3 Vols) (1992) 5 exemplaires
The Churches speak on--abortion : official statements from religious bodies and ecumenical organizations (1989) 4 exemplaires
The literature of magick, witchcraft, and neo-paganism: A bibliographical survey of books, periodicals, and other… 4 exemplaires
Religious leaders of America 3 exemplaires
The Churches Speak on: Euthanasia : Official Statements from Religious Bodies and Ecumenical Organizations (Churches… (1991) 3 exemplaires
The encyclopedia of American religions, religious creeds : a compilation of more than 450 creeds, confessions,… 3 exemplaires
American Religious Creeds (American Religious Creed) 2 exemplaires
The Churches Speak on Homosexuality: Official Statements from Religious Bodies and Ecumenical Organizations (1990) 2 exemplaires
Cults in America 1 exemplaire
Enciclopédia dos Vampiros 1 exemplaire
The encyclopedia of American religions, Volume I 1 exemplaire
Erleuchtung finden 1 exemplaire
Understanding New Religious Movements 1 exemplaire
The Cult Experience 1 exemplaire
National Directory of Churches, Synagogues, and Other Houses of Worship: Midwestern States : Illinois Indiana Iowa… (1993) 1 exemplaire
The encyclopedia of American religions, Volume II 1 exemplaire
Encyclopedia of World Religions Set, 6-Volumes (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology) (2009) 1 exemplaire
African American Methodism in the M. E. Tradition: The Case of Sharp Street (Baltimore) 1 exemplaire
Vampire Books: a Bibliography 1 exemplaire
Religions of the world: Volume 3 E-H 1 exemplaire
The Encyclopedia of American Religions Supplement 1 exemplaire
American Religious Creeds (American Religious Creed) 1 exemplaire
The Vampire in the Comic Book 1 exemplaire
The Official Vampirella Collector's Checklist 1969-1998 (TSD Occasional Publication No. 3) 1 exemplaire
Chronicling the Vampire: A Collector's Guide to the Vampire Writings of Anne Rice (TSD Occasional Publication No. 2) 1 exemplaire
Faith in America: African-American, Baptist and Methodist, Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu and Sikh, Islamic, Jewish, Mormon,… (2003) 1 exemplaire
Religions of the World, Vol. 5 1 exemplaire
Religions of the World, Vol. 1 1 exemplaire
Religions of the World, Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Religions of the World, Vol. 4 1 exemplaire
Religions of the World, Vol. 6 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions: Second Edition (Penguin Reference Books) (1997) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 105 exemplaires
Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America [Five Volumes] (2006) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
Teaching New Religious Movements (Aar Teaching Religious Studies Series) (2007) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Witchcraft, Satanism and Occult Crime: Who's Who and What's What (1989) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 8 exemplaires
Handbook of New Age (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion) (2007) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Gnostica: a Practical Guide to the Magick Within You, Vol 5 #3, # 39 (1976) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1942-09-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Wyanet, Illinois, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA - Études
- Birmingham Southern College
Garrett Theological Seminary
Northwestern University - Professions
- Methodist Minister
- Organisations
- American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
The Transylvanian Society of Dracula - Courte biographie
- 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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Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect… par J. Gordon Melton
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?… (plus d'informations)
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setnahkt | Sep 15, 2023 |
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.… (plus d'informations)
Fabulous reference book--great for authors and people interested in the mythology behind vampires.
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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- 8
- Membres
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- Évaluation
- 3.8
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- 14
- ISBN
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