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The Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America

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Garland Publishing, 1992 - History - 407 pages
Covers the history, founders, beliefs, and literature of over five hundred nonconventional and alternative religious movements

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Ronald Enroth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1986 edition of his Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America Melton introduced religious studies scholars to the neologism Christian countercult as ...
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nationmaster - Encyclopedia: J. Gordon Melton
In his Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America he drew an academic distinction between the Christian countercult movement and the secular anti-cult ...
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Prem Rawat: Information and Much More from Answers.com
Melton, Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, pp.141-2 entry Divine Light Mission. "Just six years after the founding of the Mission, ...
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Understanding the New Age — Chapter 8
J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1986), 159. 5. Russell Chandler and Evan Maxwell, ...
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The United States and Britain in Fantasy
Melton, Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, p. 59. 12. Armstrong, The United States and Britain in Prophecy, pp. 100-102. 13. Ibid., pp. 55-57. ...
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Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America Revised and Updated Edition By J. Gordon Melton Published by Garland's "Religious Information Sytems" imprint, ...
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Satanic Cults - A Skeptical View of the Law Enforcement Approach
20 Melton's approach to surveying cults, which he has published in The Encyclopedia of American Religions and Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, ...
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Vampire Forum Of Darkness : Off Topic - Vampirism, also a practice
In addition to these I used J.Gordon Melton’s books The Encyclopedia of American Religions and Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America that had chapters ...
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Christ’s Advocate: An Incarnational Apologetic to Satanism
“Satanism” in Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America. New. York: Garland, 1992: 108-117. Montgomery, John Warwick. The Law Above the Law. ...
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Culti religiosi
... Understanding Cults and New Religions (1986); jg Melton, The Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (1986); J Needleman, The New Religions (1970); ...
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