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American Religions Collection, Ca http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3779n92n No online items Preliminary Guide to the American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html © 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Preliminary Guide to the ARC Mss 1 1 American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] Preliminary Guide to the American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] Collection number: ARC Mss 1 Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Contact Information: Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html Processors: Special Collections staff Date Completed: 12/30/99 Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou © 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: American Religions Collection, Date (inclusive): ca. 1840s-1990s Date (bulk): [Bulk 1970s-1990s] Collection number: ARC Mss 1 Compiler: Melton, J. Gordon Extent: ca. 680 linear feet (210 file cabinet drawers, ca. 150 boxes, ca. 1,000 audiovisual items. Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog. Language: English. Acquisition Information The bulk of the collection was donated by J. Gordon Melton in the 1980s. Melton and others continue to add to the collection. Restrictions None. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation Preliminary Guide to the ARC Mss 1 2 American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] [Identification of item], American Religions Collection, ARC Mss 1, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University of California, Santa Barbara. Scope and Content The container list in this guide includes folder level descriptions of materials mainly housed in the American Religions Collection (ARC) file cabinets. Contents of many, but not all, of the file drawers are listed. Religious groups and families generally are listed as they appear in J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions (5th edition, 1996). The bulk of the collection is from J. Gordon Melton, with ongoing additions from him and other sources. This guide will be updated on a periodic basis, as additional materials are processed. Preliminary Guide to the ARC Mss 1 3 American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] Series I: Groups/Families. Series I: Groups/Families. Scope and Content Note Material for individual Groups/Families generally is further organized into the following: General (includes articles, clippings and other material about the groups, bibliographies, and broad subject files); Organizations/Groups (includes correspondence, bulletins, newsletters, flyers, and other material, for the most part issued by that group); Serials (includes short runs or single issues of serials relating to that larger group or family; longer runs of serials are housed separately and are listed in a single alphabetical listing for all ARC serials - see list at Special Collections service desk; Unsorted (material presently unidentified but is being filed into one of the three preceding series, as time permits); Oversize (material housed in flat file boxes and in map cabinet drawers); Audio-visual (most commonly commercially produced cassettes, cds, sound recordings (lps), and videotapes). The following numbers indicate cabinet and drawer numbers where the files are stored. Adventists (7/1;8/1-8/4) Anglican (2/2) Astrology (15/1-15/4) Bahai (26/4) Baptist (5/5; 6/1) Buddhism (29/30/1) Christian Science (10/5) Communalism (9/4-9/5; 10/1) Congregational (3/3-3/4) Eastern Orthodox (3/1) Episcopal (1/2) European Free (5/4) Freemasonry (18/1-18/2) Fundamentalists (6/2-6/3) Gnosticism (18/1) Hare Krishna (ISKCON) (27/3-27/4) Hinduism (26/5-29/2) Holiness (4/3) I Am (21/1-21/3) Independent Preliminary Guide to the ARC Mss 1 4 (2/1-2/2) American Religions Collection, ca. Islam 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] (26/3-26/4) Jainism (28/5) Jesus People (5/3) Judaism (26/1-26/2) Liberals (8/5; 9/1) Lutheran (3/2) Magick (22/1-25/5) Methodism (4/1-4/2) Mormon (9/2-9/3) New Age (11/3-14/5; 17/4) New Groups (41/1-41/4) New Thought (10/2-10/5) Occult (18/2-18/4; 19/1-19/4) Old Catholic Church (1/2-1/5; 2/3-2/5) Pentecostal (4/4-4/5; 5/1-5/3) Presbyterian (3/3-3/4) Roman Catholic (1/1-1/2) Rosacrucian (18/1) Scientology (16/1-16/5; 17/5) Sikhism (28/5) Spiritualism (11/1) Sufism (26/3) Swedenborgian (11/2) Theosophy (20/1-20/2) UFO (Ufology) (39/5-40/5) Unidentified Churches and Religious Groups (30/2) Unification Church (17/1-17/3) Zoroastrianism (26/4) Series I: Groups/Families. Series II: Secondary Organizations. Scope and Content Note Files include materials that do not relate to specific groups or families, but pertain to organizations or other bodies that have a more general religious interest or ecumenical thrust. General (30/3-32/3) Hebrew/Christian (33/1-33/2) Missions (33/3) Schools (33/4) Virgin Mary (33/5) Series III: Subject Files. Scope and Content Note Arranged alphabetically, includes materials on various religious topics, but which cut across specific groups or families. A-Chr (34/1) Church and State (34/1-34/2) Ci-Cr (34/2) Cults/Anti-Cults (34/3-35/3) De-Fu (35/4) Gay/Lesbian (35/5) Ge-Hu (36/1) Hypnosis (36/1) I-Noa (36/1) Non-Conventional Healing (36/2-36/5) Nu-Paranormal (37/1) Parapsychology (37/1-37/3) Women and Religion (39/2-39/3) Series IV: Tertiary Organizations (32/4-32/5) Preliminary Guide to the ARC Mss 1 5 American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] SERIES I: GROUPS/FAMILIES SERIES I: GROUPS/FAMILIES ADVENTIST FAMILY GENERAL cabinet-drawer 6/5 Adventist Hate Groups/Crimes (British I Groups) Adventist History Adventist Publications Bernardini, Angela - correspondence Cambra, Walter C. / The Book of Revelation Deciphered The Evangelical Adventist "How to be Born Again" Kaplan, Jeffery Context of American Millenarian Revolutionary Theology Racial Identity "Reasoning from the Scriptures" Russell - White Debate Skinheads ORGANIZATIONS/GROUPS cabinet-drawer 7/1 Advent Christian Church Albuquerque Bible Students America's Destiny Anglo-Saxon Fellowship Anti-British Israel Apolistic Church of God Armstrong, Ted Garner Assembly of Christian Soldiers Assembly of Yhwhhoshua Associated Bible Students Inc. Associated Churches of God Associates for Scriptural Knowledge Association for Christian Development Association of Covenant People - Vancouver, British Columbia Aurora College/Adventism Basic Bible Church of America Beacon Light Assembly Bean, K. Max Berean Bible Institute - Australia Berean Christian Conference - PA Bible Education Ministry Bible Fellowship Church Bible Fellowship Union Bible Sabbath Association Bible Students Ecclesia of Dayton, OH Bible Student Groups-correspondence - United Kingdom Bible Student - misc. correspondence Bible Student - misc. notes Bible Truth Program Biblical Church of God The Branch Branch Davidians - Waco, TX British Israel World Federation A Candle of God Chamberlain, W. J. Center for Law and Religious Freedom Chicago Bible Students Association Christ's Gospel Fellowships Christian Believer's Fellowship - Staten Island, N. Y. Christian Bible Students - Warren, Mich. Christian Biblical America Preliminary Guide to the ARC Mss 1 6 American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s [Bulk 1970s-1990s] SERIES I: GROUPS/FAMILIES Christian Conservative Churches of America Christian Identity Missions Christian Israelite Church Christian Legal Society Christian Millennial Church Christian Millennial Fellowship - Alabama Christian Prophet of Jehovah Church of God Church of God - Cleveland, OH Church of God - Coldwell, ID Church of God Abrahamic Faith Church of God Body of Christ Church of God Evangelistic Assn. Church of God, General Council - Meridian, ID Church of God International Church of God Sabbatarian Church of God Seventh Day - Denver, CO Church of God Seventh Day - Salem, W. VA Church of God Seventh Era Church of Israel Church of Jesus Christ of Philadelphia Covenant Family of Kingdom People Covenant People's Advocate Covenant, Sword, Arm of the Lord Davis, Haviland W. Dawn Bible Students Destiny of America Doctrine Eschatology Faithbuilder's Fellowship Fellowship for the Restoration of Biblical Faith Fort Worth Bible Students Foundation for Biblical Research Gospel of Regeneration cabinet-drawer 7/2 Harvest Siftings Heirs of the Blessing House of Yahweh - Abilene, TX Institute for Purposeful Living International Bible Students Association Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Associated Bible Students Jehovah's Witnesses Bible Believer's Conference Jehovah's Witnesses bibliography I-II Jehovah's Witnesses - blood Jehovah's Witnesses case Jehovah's Witnesses - Feytag (?) Movement Jehovah's Witnesses - Round Table of the Scripture Jehovah's Witnesses - Secondary Foreign Periodicals Jehovah's Witnesses - Servants of Yahweh Jehovah's Witnesses - splinter groups Kingdom Bible Institute Kingdom of Yahweh Layman's Home Missionary Movement LeGrande, William S. Lenfest, Edna Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation Lord's Government Church - Americas Promise Ministry of Christ Church - William P.
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