http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3779n92n No online items Guide to the American Religions Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, bulk 1970s–1990s processed by Special Research Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou with updates by David C. Gartrell Special Research Collections UC Santa Barbara 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/special-collections © 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Guide to the American Religions ARC Mss 1 1 Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, bulk 1970s–1990s Guide to the American Religions Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, bulk 1970s–1990s Collection number: ARC Mss 1 Special Research Collections UC Santa Barbara Library University of California, Santa Barbara Contact Information: Special Research Collections UC Santa Barbara 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/special-collections Processors: Special Collections staff Date Completed: 12/30/99 Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou Revised by: David C. Gartrell © 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: American Religions Collection, Date (inclusive): circa 1840s–2010s Date (bulk): 1970s–1990s Collection number: ARC Mss 1 Compiler: Melton, J. Gordon Extent: 337.5 linear feet (270 cartons) 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 Guide to the American Religions ARC Mss 1 2 Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, bulk 1970s–1990s [Identification of item], American Religions Collection, ARC Mss 1, Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, 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). Prior to 2016, the collection was housed in file cabinets; it has since been rehoused in archival cartons. Contents of most, but not all, of the cartons are listed. Religious groups and families generally are listed as they appear in J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions (8th edition, 2009). The bulk of the orginal collection resulted from the research and publishing activities of J. Gordon Melton, with ongoing additions coming both from him and other sources. This guide will be updated on a periodic basis, as additional materials are processed. Guide to the American Religions ARC Mss 1 3 Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, 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 the ARC Serials database ; 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 materials (most commonly commercially-produced sound recordings and videotapes) have been described separately in the UC Santa Barbara Library catalog. Group/FamilyLocation Adventists Boxes 38-44 Anglicanism Boxes 10-11 Astrology Boxes 80-85 Bahai Box 175 Baptist Boxes 32-34 Buddhism Boxes 192-200 Christian Science Boxes 56-58 Communalism Boxes 52-55 Congregationalism Box 17 The Druze Box 175 Eastern Orthodox Boxes 12-13 Episcopal (see Anglicanism) European Free Boxes 30-31 Freemasonry Box 142 Fundamentalists, Independent Boxes 35-37 Gnosticism Box 142 Hare Krishna (ISKCON) Boxes 190-191 Hinduism Boxes 176-189 Holiness Boxes 20-21 I Am Boxes 137-141 Guide to the American Religions ARC Mss 1 4 Islam Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, Boxes 172-173 bulk 1970s–1990s Jainism Box 192 Jesus People Box 22 Judaism Boxes 167-171 Latter-Day Saints Boxes 48-51 Liberals Boxes 45-47 Lutheran Box 14 Magick Boxes 143-166 Methodism (Pietist-Methodist) Boxes 18-19 New Age Boxes 86-104 New Groups Boxes 203-207 New Thought Boxes 59-62 Occult Boxes 122-132 Old Catholic Church Boxes 3-9 Pentecostal Boxes 22-29 Reformed-Presbyterian Boxes 15-16 Roman Catholic Boxes 1-2 Rosacrucian Boxes 120-121 Sant Mat Boxes 192-193 Scientology Boxes 105-112 Shintoism Box 200 Sikhism Box 192 Spiritualism (General) Boxes 63-66, 68-69 Sufism Box 174 Swedenborgian Box 67 Theosophy Boxes 133-136 UFO (Ufology) Boxes 70-79 Unclassified Churches and Religious Groups Boxes 201-202 Unification Church Boxes 113-119 Zoroastrianism Box 175 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 208-220 Hebrew/Christian 221-223 Series III: Subject Files Scope and Content Note Arranged alphabetically, includes materials on various religious topics, but which cut across specific groups or families. SubjectLocation General Boxes 224-227 Church and State Boxes 228-229 Cults/Anti-Cults Boxes 230-238 Gay/Lesbian Boxes 239-240 Hypnosis Box 241 Native American Box 259 Non-Conventional Healing Boxes 242-247 Occult/Anti-Occult Box 248 Parapsychology Boxes 249-251 Political Extremism Boxes 252-253 Women and Religion Boxes 254-257 Guide to the American Religions ARC Mss 1 5 Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, bulk 1970s–1990s Series IV: Melton Files Series IV: Melton Files Scope and Content Note Includes materials pertaining to the research, writings, and professional life of J. Gordon Melton. Biographies, Correspondence, Lectures Box 260 Publications Box 261 Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR) Box 262 Clippings Boxes 263-264 Research Files Boxes 265-266 Teaching Box 267 Churches Speak Project Boxes 269-270 Unsorted Box 268 Series I: Groups/Families Western Liturgical Roman Catholic Church General Files box 1 Academic Freedom box 1 American Hierarchy box 1 Anti-Catholicism--Chiniquy, Father Charles box 1 Anti-Catholicism--Christ's Mission box 1 Anti-Catholicism--Conversion Center box 1 Anti-Catholicism--Converted Priests, etc. box 1 Anti-Catholicism--Mission to Catholics International box 1 Anti-Catholicism--Rivera, Alberto box 1 Articles--"Crossing the Line," Penthouse; Henthoff, Nat box 1 Articles--"Is Roman Catholicism Reformable?" The Christian Century; Ruether, Rosemary box 1 Asia box 1 The Baptist Standard Press--Ello, Fredrick Walsh Jr. box 1 Bernardin, Cardinal box 1 Black Roman Catholics box 1 Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops box 1 Cardinals, Roman Catholic box 1 Carmelites box 1 Catholicism [1/3] box 1 Catholicism [2/3] box 1 Catholicism [3/3] box 1 Catholics and Blacks box 1 Celibacy for Roman Catholic Priests box 1 Doctrine box 1 Eastern Rite box 1 Ecumenicity Guide to the American Religions ARC Mss 1 6 Collection, circa 1840s–2010s, bulk 1970s–1990s Series I: Groups/Families Western Liturgical box 1 Greeley, Andrew box 1 History box 1 Jesuits box 1 Knights of Columbus Courses box 1 Kung, Dr. Hans box 1 Mahony Watching box 1 Mahony, Archbishop Roger box 1 Mahony--Installation box 1 Mahony--Latinos box 1 Marian Apparitions box 1 Oblate Missions box 1 Opus Dei box 1 Orders, Catholic box 1 Papacy box 1 Papacy--WWII Controversy box 1 PIME box 1 Pope John XXIII box 1 Pope John-Paul I and Pope John-Paul II box 1 Pope Paul VI box 1 Pope Pius XII box 1 Priest Shortage box 1 Priestless Sundays box 2 Priests Freedom box 2 Propaganda box 2 Saints box 2 Sangre de Cristo Church box 2 Sex--Birth Control box 2 Social Issues box 2 St. Jude Christ Catholic Church box 2 St. Pierre Liberal Catholic Church, Inc. box 2 Sweeney box 2 Sweeney Protest box 2 Theology box 2 Tracts box 2 Trappist Monks box 2 Vatican Council II box 2 Vatican I--1870 box 2 Writings--The Regathering; Talbot, John Michael Organizations/Groups box 2 Alexian Brothers box 2 The American Catholic Historical Association box 2 Benedictine Mission House box 2 Columban Fathers box 2 Federation of Christian Ministries box 2 Fellowship of St. Gregory and St. Augustine box 2 Franciscan Communications box 2 Franciscan Friars of Marytown box 2 Glenmary Research Center box 2 Hesed Community box 2 Indiana Center for Shroud Studies