J. Gordon Melton - Factbites

J. Gordon Melton - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: J. Gordon Melton

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

In the News (Mon 4 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	J. Gordon Melton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melton is one of the more prominent critics of the anti-cult and some of the countercult organizations that he considers biased and ignorant.
		Melton is also an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.
		Aum Shinrikyo, that travelled to Japan to investigate Aum's activities and claims of persecution and erroneously declared Aum to be innocent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Melton

	Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, the School of Ancient Wisdom
		Gordon Melton is the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California, and is a research specialist with the department of religious studies at the University of California.
		Melton, a leading authority and expert witness in the area of cults and religious movements, was first brought to Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment in 1992 to consult with JZ Knight’s attorney on a court proceeding.
		Melton’s background in religious studies and cults provides readers with an unbiased and educated account of the value and credibility of Ramtha’s teachings and JZ Knight’s unique position and responsibility as the medium who teaches and fulfills the lives of those she touches.
	www.ramtha.com /html/media/press-rels/98-03-10.stm

	J. Gordon Melton's Interview on New Religions with "Speak Magazine" (by John Mardas - No. 2, Summer 2000)
		And J. Gordon Melton has spent his whole life becoming sensitive to these issues-the continuous flow between the boundaries and the center-so sensitive, in fact, that one gets the feeling that from Melton's vantage point, there are no real boundaries even to speak of, only an increasingly sophisticated symmetry.
		Gordon Melton is a card-carrying -Methodistan ordained minister and Elder in the church.
		Melton serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, an independent research facility tucked into the top floor of the United Methodist Church in Isla Vista, California.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/melton_speak.htm

	untitled
		Gordon Melton is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books on New Religious Movements (NRM's), and is the editor of several standard reference works including the Encyclopedia of American Religions.
		Melton heads the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, and is frequently approached by the media for his perspective on alternative religious movements.
	www.ciis.edu /cayce/melton.html

	The Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, J. Gordon Melton
		Melton explores these questions and the major aspects of the church's hierarchical structure and theology, showing, among other things, that the study of religion is seldom dull.
		Gordon Melton (Ph.D., history and literature of religion,
		He is the author of the influential Encyclopedia of American Religions and some twenty other workds, co-author of the award-winning New Age Encyclopedia, and senior editor for the Directory of European Religions.
	www.signaturebooks.com /scientology.htm

	The Testimony of John Gordon Melton
		MELTON: I don't know that I am the best one to speak to that, but I think there are a number of incidents where apart from brainwashing, just by a social conditioning, a group could accept that their best means of survival is bodily death.
		MELTON: A group that flows out of the Protestant Reformation and accepts the basic teachings of the Bible as their authority and is orthodox according to the Chalcedonian Creeds, the early creeds of the church, and is literally evangelical.
		MELTON: SCP in its literature has primarily been doctrinal, but at various points it has also said that not only is this group doctrinally wrong; it is also psychologically harmful, and it has in certain places brought in the secular critic of cults to supplement its attack on specific groups.
	www.hightruth.com /experts/melton.html

	Kashi Ashram :: Enlightenment: Ma's ashram
		Gordon Melton, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, Calif., and a research specialist with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California — Santa Barbara.
		Melton also said he has monitored Ma Jaya’s work with AIDS patients both here and in Los Angeles since she took up the cause in 1993 or 1994, but said he has had little contact with Kashi since 1999.
		Melton is instead considered to be a cult apologist.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /7110-.html

	Essay on Gordon Melton's study of Ramtha
		Melton neglects to mention reports from JZ's childhood friends at that time who remember her falling to the ground, seemingly possessed by a male spirit that called itself "Demias" who spoke in a "male voice." "I have possessed this body for a long time," Demias reportedly said.
		Melton mentions that many movie stars were attracted to Ramtha, but neglects to mention that JZ began to gain fame in 1980 when she channeled Ramtha for audiences in actor Richard Chamberlain's home.
		Melton does report that Jeff was a "bisexual" who had an affair with a man during his marriage to JZ, and that he contracted HIV sometime before 1987.
	www.kelebekler.com /cesnur/txt/ram2.htm

	deseretnews.com Scientology: Church now claims more than 8 million members
		Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and considered an expert on new and non-conventional religions.
		Melton, who has been criticized by some for being too easy on Scientology, and has been criticized by the church for being too harsh, says that the church's estimates of its membership numbers — 4 million in the United States, 8 to 9 million worldwide — are exaggerated.
		Melton says Scientology's early critics, in the 1960s, accused it of practicing medicine without a license because of the auditing sessions and the e-meter.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595091823,00.html

	Meet the Experts
		RODNEY STARK, Ph.D. NEWTON MALONY, Ph.D. GAUSTAD, Ph.D. JOHN GORDON MELTON, Ph.D. Dr. Melton is the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
		Melton is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and a member of its Northern Illinois Conference.
		Melton is the author of over twelve books on American religious groups including the Encyclopedia of American Religions (3 vols.), the standard reference work in its field.
	www.hightruth.com /experts/esmeet.html

	Reviews: The Church of Scientology, by Gordon Melton
		Melton traces the growth and development of Scientology, describing the structure of the church, its system of ethics and justice, its social betterment and social reform programs, its impressive commitment to religious freedom and other human rights, and its struggle to win acceptance.
		Melton (director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, Calif., and author of the Encyclopedia of American Religions), begins his study with a history of Lafayette Ron Hubbard, a successful Hollywood screenwriter in the 1930s who also churned out voluminous pulp fiction under various pen names.
		As Melton relates, few religions grew as fast or drew as much attention in the half century to follow.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/scientology.htm

	Vampire library of Darkness : Vampire Gallery: A Who's Who of the Undead, J. Gordon Melton
		This is a frustrating book?Melton's obvious enthusiasm for all things vampiric is infectious and can make for enjoyable reading, but the omission of characters from the works of such authors as Wendy Haley, Nancy Kilpatrick, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch plus occasionally erroneous information severely limits the book's value as a reference tool.
		Melton has gathered a representative sample from the thousands of vampire characters in film and print and has attempted to include the most popular, but how he has determined that popularity is unclear.
		Melton (The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, Visible Ink, 1998.
	www.vampires.nu /pages/Books.cfm/ID/1307/PageID/22

	J. Gordon Melton : Queer Pop Culture
		Gordon Melton is the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, the author of over 25 books, encyclopedias and almanacs, and an...
		Since Gordon Melton has made an old speciality and way of life of defending criminal cults like Scientology o, moon, Krishna or aum shirikyo, I can't decently estimate that any work he writes is honorable and truthful.
		Similar, in format, to Melton's far-better "The Vampire book", this tome attempts to document the various kinds of vampires that have graced the screen, novels, short stories, and even comics, but does not quite succeed in whole.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/authorsearch_J.%20Gordon%20Melton/mode_books

	Scientology --- J. Gordon Melton: Scholar or paid apologist?
		Melton was prominently mentioned within a confidential memo written and distributed by Jeffery Hadden.
		Gordon Melton in apparently now promoting the seventh edition of his book called the "Encyclopedia of American Religions."
		Melton flew in, all of his expenses by the criminal cult.
	www.holysmoke.org /cos/gordon-melton-paid-apologist.htm

	Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study
		Melton's paper about it is a dramatic example of how sympathetic commentators can rewrite the past in order to fit the needs of the present, but that study's neglect of key documents from the late 1960s and early 1970s make his effort unconvincing.
		Melton's strategy seems to be to dispute the accuracy of my scholarship while offering in its place a religious interpretation of events and social structures that I have (or likely would) consider to be primarily secular.
		Melton alluded to the "fair game" policy in actions against author Paulette Cooper in the 1970s, but incorrectly stated that the covert plan against her was "never implemented" (Melton 2001: n.
	www.rickross.com /reference/scientology/history/history15.html?FACTNet

	Gordon Melton Introvigne and Vampires
		Reverend James Gordon Melton claims that he, Introvigne and their friends are "a bunch of silly people dressing up and biting each other on the neck."
		So even if Gordon Melton and Introvigne like "biting each other on the neck", that is strictly their own private business, and we have no right or intention to look further into the matter.
		Melton and Introvigne aren't exactly the type of fellows anyone would guess would be involved with a subject some regard as silly, others as sinister.
	www.kelebekler.com /cesnur/txt/morsigb.htm

	J. Gordon Melton's Open Letter Concerning the God-Men--Index
		Gordon Melton, the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and editor of the definitive work The Encyclopedia of American Religions, wrote and published An Open Letter Concerning the Local Church, Witness Lee and The God-Men Controversy.
		We believe that any fair-minded person who reads Dr. Melton's critique will agree with his conclusion, so with his permission, we reproduce the entire text of his Open Letter here.
		The Open Letter expresses Dr. Melton's concern that The God-Men had seriously misrepresented the teaching of Witness Lee and the local churches.
	www.contendingforthefaith.org /libel-litigations/god-men/OpenLtr/index.html

	Religious diversity highest in U.S. - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Americans are proud of their freedom of religion, and the work of J. Gordon Melton shows they have a whole lot of religions to choose from.
		The new edition of J. Gordon Melton's "Encyclopedia of American Religions" describes 2,630 U.S. and Canadian religious groups, categorized into 26 "families" of faith.
		Gordon Melton describes 2,630 U.S. and Canadian faith groups in his "Encyclopedia of American Religion."
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Feb/01/il/il11afaith.html

	Cornerstone Magazine :: Self-consciousness in the Study of New Religions, J. Gordon Melton
		See the chapter on "Evangelcial chrisytian and the Cults" in J. Gordon Melton, An Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (New York: Garland Publishing, 1986): 221-227.
		Gordon Melton, "Emerging Religious Movements in North America: Some Missiological Reflections," Missiology: An International Review 28, 1 (January 2000): 85-98.
		Cornerstone Magazine :: Self-consciousness in the Study of New Religions, J. Gordon Melton
	www.cornerstonemag.com /pages/show_page.asp?384

	Tokyo Cult Finds an Unlikely Supporter
		Gordon Melton ] -- Aum paid the bill --to warn that the Japanese police were threatening the group's religious freedom.
		The Americans said Monday that they spent three days in Japan talking to cult officials and others, but were not permitted to visit the sect's chemical factories or its headquarters campus.
		Barry Fisher, a lawyer in Los Angeles who said he is chairman of the bar association's subcommittee on religious freedom, traveled to Tokyo with three other Americans [including J.
	www.rickross.com /reference/apologist/apologist7.html

	Child Abuse, Suicide, and the Branch Davidians - J. Gordon Melton
		Child Abuse, Suicide, and the Branch Davidians - J. Gordon Melton
		Gordon Melton is professor of religion at the University of California and director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion at Santa Barbara, California.
		David Koresh and the Branch Davidians whom he led burst out of obscurity a scant year ago.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1994/june/Sa12041.htm

	CUT article by Cathleen Mann on Church Universal and Triumphant
		Controversy: An Anthology of Essential Documents," edited by J. Gordon Melton and Massimo Introvigne.
		Gordon Melton and others similarily situated (i.e., don’t believe in mind control):
		why were none of these things mentioned in Melton’s so-called comprehensive "study," can you tell me that???
	www.irr.org /cmann.html

	Adherents.com
		Melton, J. Gordon, Jerome Clark and Aidan A. Kelly.
		Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_294.html

	J Gordon Melton - 0810377144 - SheinChung Chow
		J Gordon Melton - 0810377144 - SheinChung Chow
	www.howtowrite.net /133251encyclopedia_american_religions.html (56 words)

	J. Gordon Melton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Gordon Melton is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is a research specialist with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
		Melton was born on September 19, 1942 in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Burnum Edgar Melton and Inez Parker.
		Melton is one of the more prominent critics of the anti-cult movement and some of the countercult organizations.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._Gordon_Melton (2431 words)

	CESNUR - Melton's Critique of Brainwashing
		Gordon Melton's Introduction to the forthcoming book The Brainwashing Controversy: An Anthology of Essential Documents, edited by J. Gordon Melton and Massimo Introvigne, to be published in several languages.
		Brainwashing and the Cults: The Rise and Fall of a Theory
	www.cesnur.org /testi/melton.htm (2431 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Gordon Melton on New Age
		This paper by J. Gordon Melton, titled "Beyond Millennialism: The New Age Transformed," was presented by the author at the conference on "New Age in the Old World" held at the Institut Oecumenique de Bossey, Celigny, Switzerland, July 17-21, 2000.
		For a concise introduction to the New Age phenomenon, see another essay by Gordon Melton on this site.
		See James Redfield's several titles: The Celestine Prophecy (New York: Warner Books, 1994); The Celestine Vision: Living the New Spiritual Awareness (New York: Warner Books, 1997}; The Tenth Insight (New York: Warner Books, 1996); The Secret of Shambhala: Search for the Eleventh Insight (New York: Warner Books, 1999).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/newage.html (2431 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Perspectives on the New Age (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)
		It would be a good idea to do an interview with J. Gordon Melton, one of the foremost academics on modern religion, cults and the New Age.
		The Jim Melton interview you run in relation to this text has nothing to do with J. Gordon Melton.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0791412148 (2431 words)

	J. Gordon Melton - A Short Study of the Scientology Religion
		Gordon Melton - A Short Study of the Scientology Religion
		I am the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion located in Evanston, Illinois; a research facility for the study of the small religious groups in the United States.
	www.neuereligion.de /ENG/melton/page01.htm (2431 words)

	Phillip Charles Lucas Top 10 Bestselling Search: Phillip Charles Lucas
		Gordon Melton, Phillip Charles Lucas, Jon R. Stone
	www.medicum.net /list-books-Phillip+Charles+Lucas-us.html (2431 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: J. Gordon Melton

Ads by Google

Related Topics

In the News (Mon 4 Jun 12)