J. Gordon Melton is director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, CA, and the author of more than 40 books on American and world religion.
Phillip Charles Lucas, PhD, teaches American religion at Stetson University in Deland, FL. His monograph, The Odyssey of a New Religion: The Holy Order of MANS from New Age to Orthodoxy was published in 1995.
Jon R. Stone, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and university lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. His published works include A Guide to the End of the World: Popular Eschatology in America; Latin for the Illiterati; and On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism: The Postwar Evangelical Coalition.