J. Gordon Melton
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Website : J. Gordon Melton at Baylor University
Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Institute for Studies in Religion, Baylor University; Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Woodway, Texas. Author of La Chiesa di Scientology; editor of Encyclopedia of American Religions and others.
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Church of Satan, counterculture group founded in the United States in the 1960s by Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey. Contrary to its name, the church did not promote “evil” but rather humanistic values. LaVey, a former carnival worker, had absorbed a variety of occult and ritual-magic…
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