The Legend of Vampires

Dr. J. Gordon Melton, became Distinguished Professor of American Religious History of Baylor University’s Institute for Studies in Religion in March of 2011. He also serves as the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Woodway, Texas. Since joining ISR, he has been developing a set of joint projects between ISR and the Woodway-based Institute, the initial project being a comprehensive census of the American Buddhist and Hindu communities completed in 2010 (with and updated census having been launched in 2019). Also in recent years he has overseen a church congregation survey project counting active congregation in McLennan County (where Waco is located), Whatcom County, Washington, and Richmond, Virginia. In addition, he has for the last two decades been monitoring the changing state of the church in China. Dr. Melton is ...