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J. Gordon Melton

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September 19, 1942 in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States

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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 a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.

His areas of research include major religious traditions, new religions and alternative religions, Occultism and Parapsychology, New Age, and vampirology.

Melton has been criticized by several scholars for what they see as conflicts of interest in his reporting of some of the groups he studies.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 808 ratings · 34 reviews · 58 distinct works

	The Vampire Book 3.92 avg rating — 750 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Vampire Gallery: A Who's Who of the Undead 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Church of Scientology 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	VideoHound's Vampires on Video 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nelson's Guide to Denominations: The Primary Resource for Understanding and Navigating America's Christian Organizations 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions by J. Gordon Melton, James A. Beverley (Editor), Constance Jones (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Religious Creeds: A Compilation of More Than 450 Creeds, Confessions, Statements of Faith, and Summaries of Do 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988	My rating:
	Protestant Faith in America 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Encyclopedia Of American Religions 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985 — 11 editions	My rating: