Arthur Carl Piepkorn: Research collection for Profiles in belief, the religious bodies of the United States and Canada.

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Arthur Carl Piepkorn: Research collection for Profiles in belief, the religious bodies of the United States and Canada.

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The collection contains the research files from which Arthur Carl Piepkorn's four volume reference work, Profiles in Belief was published posthumously in 1977, edited by John H. Tietjen. Included are extensive correspondence with religious bodies included in the book, religious bodies' newsletters, pamphlets, periodicals, and other information, and Piepkorn's manuscript draft entries on the religious bodies. The material is dated 1926 - 1977 with the bulk being 1966 - 1973. James V. Geisendorfer, and J. Gordon Melton assisted Piepkorn in the research. Material on new or alternative religions were removed from the collection in the 1980s and included in the New Religious Movements Organizations Vertical Files in the Graduate Theologoical Union Library.

27 boxes; 26 linear feet.

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7654974

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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