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5,000 Years of Religious History
This work provides an overview of significant events and developments in religious history over the course of more than five millennia, from 3500 BCE ...
The Encyclopedia of the Undead
This book takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. From Vlad the Impaler to Barnaba...
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
An Illustrated History
Examines the history of religious practice and belief in the United States, covering a period that ranges over five hundred years, and includes over t...
From sacred mountains and places of pilgrimage to visions and out-of-body travel, this reference explores unusual and unexplained physical events, app...
Explores the myth, lore, and representation in popular culture of vampires and vampire legends from around the globe....
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices [6 volumes]
This masterful six-volume encyclopedia provides comprehensive, global coverage of religion, emphasizing larger religious communities without neglectin...
An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations [2 volumes]
This two-volume work presents a comprehensive survey of all the ways people celebrate religious life around the globe. Religious Celebrations is an al...
Covers numerous North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada. Includes essays and directory listings describing the historical development o...
An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 600 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movemen...
5,000 Years of Religious History [4 volumes]
This monumental, four-volume reference overviews significant events and developments in religious history over the course of more than five millennia....
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices
Presents a comprehensive study of the religions of 276 recognized nations, totaling more than twelve hundred entries and covering each group's origin,...
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. E-H
This book provides accurate information on about 30 "alternative" or "nonconventional" religious movements, plus the anti-cult movement. The author de...
In approximately 700 A-to-Z entries, Encyclopedia of Buddhism provides easy access to the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, instituti...
Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom
In Finding Enlightenment, J. Gordon Melton, a respected scholar of traditional modern religions, chronicles the life of JZ Knight, her extraordinary e...
United States. Volume 1
"Compact, clearly printed, and a delight to use. A sine qua non for the reference collections of public, academic, and theological libraries". -- Amer...
Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture
A Comprehensive Study of the Major Religious Groups in the United States and Canada
Responding to the New Religious Pluralism
Surveys the major religious cults, examines their influence on American society, and discusses deprogramming and the movement against cults...
An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations
Religious Celebrations is an alphabetically organized encyclopedia that covers more than 800 celebratory occasions from all of the world's major relig...
This comprehensive guide provides essential historical and contact information on over 800 Protestant and Catholic churches, ecumenical and cooperativ...
The material in this book, first published in 1990, provides important documentation for the first generation of Rosicrucianism in North America, espe...
The Origins of African American Methodism
A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1...
A Biographical Guide to Founders and Leaders of Religious Bodies, Churches, and Spiritual Groups in North America
This reference by noted scholar J. Gordon Melton provides more than 1,200 detailed biographical profiles of the contemporary and historical men and wo...
Annie Besant - The Atheist Years
Annie Besant is primarily remembered as the international president of the Theosophical Society. One of the most important aspects of her career were ...
A Dictionary
First Published in 1992. This title is the first volume in the 3-volume series titled Religious Information Systems Series. This updated directory rec...
Two of the nation's leading students of the new religions share their interesting and at times conflicting views of the relationship of cults and chur...
Official Statements from Religious Bodies and Ecumenical Organizations
A Compilation of More Than 450 Creeds, Confessions, Statements of Faith, and Summaries of Doctrine of Religious and Spiritual Groups in the United States and Canada
On t.p.: A compilation of more than 450 creeds, confessions, statements of faith, and summaries of doctrine of religious and spiritual groups in the U...