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		<title>Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When describing each phenomenon, J. Gordon Melton's tone whipsaws between critical and credulous, often without obvious justification.]]></description>
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		<title>He Wrote the Book on American Religions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among scholars, research specialist J. Gordon Melton is known for his encyclopedias of spiritual beliefs. He&#8217;s also been known to sink his teeth into the study of vampires.
SANTA BARBARA — It&#8217;s often said of academics, but for J. Gordon Melton it&#8217;s true: He really does have an encyclopedic mind.
After all, Melton is the author of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCSB research of &#8216;new religions&#8217; returns surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six weeks ago, 11 UCSB students set out to map the &#8220;new religious movements&#8221; in Santa Barbara and Ojai.
To be truthful, they were a little afraid of what they might find.
&#8220;I would have thought that they all had shaved heads and chanted, but it wasn&#8217;t like that at all,&#8221; said Sara Penrod, who will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cult experts snubbed by archbishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2004 16:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ecumenical group that provides information and advice for families of people involved with religious and other cults has been dismayed by a decision by the Archbishop of Canterbury not to follow his predecessors by becoming its patron.

INFORM
INFORM is a controversial cult information agency financed in part by an annual consultancy fee from British government.
It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR&#8217;s New Religions Survey, Part I: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2004 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Listen
NPR report on New Religious Movements (RealPlayer 9:43)
Buyer Beware: This report includes the opinions of J. Gordon Melton and James R. Lewis &#8211; sociologists whose work has been referred to as a &#8220;travesty of research.&#8221;  Both Melton and Lewis are cult apologists.

 Research resources on cult apologists


As religions adapt and arise to reflect the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odd Gods: New Religions &amp; the Cult Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2003 00:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociology of Religion, Spring 2003
http://infobrix.yellowbrix.com/
Odd Gods: New Religions &#038; the Cult Controversy, JAMES R. LEWIS (ED.), Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001, 435 pp., $33.00 (cloth).
This book is an encyclopedic review, not unlike Lewis&#8217;s earlier The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, published in 1999 by the same press. One major difference with this volume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researcher Finds His Place Among The Cults</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Nexus
UC Santa Barbara&#8217;s Student Newspaper
http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/news/2003/4523.html
By Christine Bai &#8211; Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 
A UC Santa Barbara researcher has found a lot of different people who have found a lot of different gods, be it God, Allah, Buddha or Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old spirit warrior from Atlantis that J.Z. Knight of Tacoma, Washington claims to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author&#8217;s Lifetime of Collecting Information on Religious Sects Produces Invaluable Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press, Jan. 31, 2003
http://abcnews.go.com/
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 Roman Catholic Church may be huge but it&#8217;s only one among 116 Catholic denominations. Orthodox Christians have an even higher total, and Protestantism is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.Va. religious studies professor dies at age 66</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press, Jan. 27, 2003
http://www.dailypress.com/
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. &#8212; University of Virginia professor Jeffrey K. Hadden, a nationally known authority on religious trends and the Christian Right, died at his home in Charlottesville on Sunday from pancreatic cancer. He was 66.
Hadden, a professor of sociology and religious studies, published about 25 books and researched such topics as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2000 00:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peacemaking conference is held near Seattle 
Seattle &#8212; They&#8217;re calling it the &#8220;Camp David of the cult wars.&#8221;
Leaders from both factions in the decades-long dispute over danger posed by new religious movements came together over the weekend at a woodsy retreat center on the shores of Puget Sound.
There were a few screaming matches, and a [...]]]></description>
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