# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-gordon-melton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:36:05.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-gordon-melton"
name: "J. Gordon Melton"
slug: "j-gordon-melton"
description: "John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and was the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he resides. He is also an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church."
tagline: "American religious scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JGordonMelton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.43096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Gordon Melton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump