A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.

* Enroth, Ronald M. and J. Gordon Melton, Why Cults Succeed Where The Church Fails ( Brethren Press, Elgin, 1985 ).

J. Gordon Melton, in his Encyclopedia of American Religions, subdivides the Mormons into Utah Mormons, Missouri Mormons, Polygamy-Practicing Mormons, and Other Mormons.

However, Baylor University professor Dr. J. Gordon Melton has written that Hubbard disregarded and abrogated much of his earlier views about women, which Melton views as merely echos of common prejudices at the time.

While J. Gordon Melton, Wouter Hanegraaff, and Paul Heelas have emphasised personal aspects, Mark Satin, Theodore Roszak, Marilyn Ferguson, and Corinne McLaughlin have described New Age as a values-based sociopolitical movement.

* Melton, J. Gordon ( 1983 ).

* Melton, J. Gordon.

* Encyclopedia of American Religions, by J. Gordon Melton ISBN 0-8103-6904-4

* Commissioners: Tonya Burchfield, Tab Burkhalter, Rick Carver, Mike Caylor, Gary Farmer, Jim Folts, Ronald French, Roy Gamble, Tom Greene, Brad Harrison, Mark Hasty, Scott Helton, Gerald Kirby, Holden Lail, Peggy Lambert, Mike Lewis, Kenneth Melton, Jerome Moon, Monika Murrell, Steve Samples, and Gordon Wright

J. Gordon Melton of the Institute for the Study of American Religion said that disconnection goes much further than the policies of most modern religions.

Texaco Star Theaters next hosts included James Melton ( 1944 – 1947 ), Tony Martin ( 1947 – 1948 ), Gordon MacRae ( 1948 ), Jack Carter ( 1948 ), and Milton Berle ( 1948 – 1949 ).

* Barker, Eileen " Watching for Violence: A Comparative Analysis of the Roles of Five Types of Cult-atching Groups ," in Cults, Religion and Violence, David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton, eds.

In 2006 J. Gordon Melton, executive director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the New York Times that 40 to 45 new religious movements emerge each year in the United States.

The term was coined by J. Gordon Melton in a 1999 paper presented at CESNUR conference in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

* Melton, J. Gordon Encyclopedia of American Religions 5th Edition New York: 1996 Gale Research ISBN 0-8103-7714-4 ISSN 1066 – 1212 Chapter 18 --" The Ancient Wisdom Family of Religions " Pages 151-158 ; see chart on page 154 listing Masters of the Ancient Wisdom ; Also see Section 18, Pages 717-757 Descriptions of various Ancient Wisdom religious organizations

“ I just think it would be better for all concerned if they just let them go ahead and get out and everyone goes their own way, and not make such a big deal of it, the policy hurts everybody .” J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Santa Barbara, California.

* Melton, J. Gordon, The Encyclopedia of American Religions, from the Institute for the Study of American Religions, POB 90709, Santa Barbara, CA 93190 1979 ( 3rd edition, 1988 ); The Essential New Age, 1990.

J. Gordon Melton writes that Scientology is an esoteric Gnostic system based on the belief that the self, or thetan, is trapped in what it calls MEST, matter, energy, space and time.

According to the Dutch religious scholar and Christian minister Reender Kranenborg and the American religious scholar J. Gordon Melton, these techniques are secret and were originally called " Light ", " Sound ", " Name " or " Word " and " Nectar " but Maharaji now refers to them as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th techniques.

* Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor

* Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor

* Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor

* Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor

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In The Encylopedia of Protestantism, JG Melton writes: " While often associated with Evangelical Christianity, the again phenomenon is common across the entire spectrum of Protestant churches.

Eric Pement urged Melton to adopt the label " Christian countercult ", and since the early 1990s the terms has entered into popular usage and is recognised by sociologists such as Douglas Cowan.

He was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical College and later at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

* McLaurin, Melton Alonza.

Melton has also stated that the Church of Scientology welcomes both genders equally at all levels from leadership positions to auditing and so on since Scientologists view people as spiritual beings.

* Melton, H. Keith.

This early work went unnoticed, and the field was relatively quiet until the late 1960s when cognitive psychologists, including Melton and Landauer & Bjork, explored manipulation of repetition timing as a means to improve recall.

The special guest that day was Barry Melton, " the Fish " of Country Joe and the Fish fame.

* Michael J. C. Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover.

* Harris, J. Gordon, Cheryl A.

* Cleopatra ( 1917 film ), an American film directed by J. Gordon Edwards

These included such names as Lilias Armstrong, Harold Palmer, Ida Ward, Hélène Coustenoble, Arthur Lloyd James, Dennis Fry, A. C. Gimson, Gordon Arnold, J. D.

In 2003, the centenary of Orwell's birth resulted in biographies by Gordon Bowker and D. J. Taylor, both academics and writers in the United Kingdom.

Standing ( left to right ): Walter Stanley Monroe ( Prime Minister of Newfoundland | Newfoundland ), Gordon Coates ( Prime Minister of New Zealand | New Zealand ), Stanley Bruce ( Prime Minister of Australia | Australia ), J.

In 1953, Charles Hard Townes and graduate students James P. Gordon and Herbert J. Zeiger produced the first microwave amplifier, a device operating on similar principles to the laser, but amplifying microwave radiation rather than infrared or visible radiation.

* 1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill, The Evolution of the DECsystem-10, in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, Bedford, 1979 )

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hasting, Richard Hill, " The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 ", in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital Equipment, Beford, 1979 )

* C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, 1978 )

* 30-William J. J. Gordon, 83, American psychologist and inventor.

The Kendall College presidents during 1907-1919 were: Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.

In J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions it is classified among " the ' liberal ' family of churches ".

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