Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders

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Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders

REFERENCE WORK

J. Gordon Melton, Garland Publishing Inc., 1986.

People in this reference: 23
Those presently living: 0
Those deceased: 23

White: 19
Middle Eastern: 2
Black: 1
Multiracial: 1

United States: 11
England: 4
Persia: 2
Sweden: 1
Scotland: 1
Netherlands: 1
Germany: 1
Armenia: 1
Russia: 1
Abdu'l-Bahá
Felix Adler
Bahá'u'lláh
Annie Besant
H. P. Blavatsky
Edgar Cayce
Aleister Crowley
Mary Baker Eddy
Gerald Gardner
G. I. Gurdjieff
Elias Hicks
Edward Irving
Jim Jones
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Aimee Semple McPherson
Menno Simons
Elijah Muhammad
Robert Dale Owen
Kaspar Schwenkfeld
Joseph Smith
Emanuel Swedenborg
Ellen G. White
Brigham Young

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