American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s (Bulk 1970s-1990s).

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American Religions Collection, ca. 1840s-1990s (Bulk 1970s-1990s).

The container list 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).

ca. 1,000 audiovisual items.

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Melton, J. Gordon

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The Chicagoland Psychic Archives was a project started in the fall of 1975 at Dr. J. Gordon Melton's Institute for the Study of American Religion. The city of Chicago, Illinois was home to a large community engaged in the study and practice of paranormal phenomena, including psychics, astrologers, readers, mediums, graphologists, ghosthunters and devotees of the occult, nonconventional healing, UFOs, and parapsychology. Assisted by psychic card reader David Techter, astrologer Elinor Jaksto, and...