Preston Hunter, founder of ComicBookReligion.com, has analyzed dozens of comic book characters and lists their religious affiliations there as well as on Adherents.com, which he also founded. He says Batman may be a lapsed Roman Catholic or disaffected Episcopalian. The Thing from The Fantastic Four is Jewish, a rare instance of a character’s faith being discussed openly in […]

Selected data from Freedom House’s  annual survey of political rights and civil liberties.

B.J. Oropeza is a professor of biblical studies at the Azusa Pacific University School of Theology in Asuza, Calif., and an expert in religion and popular culture. Oropeza is the author of The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture.

News about religion and ethics from the BBC.

News about religion in the world by the interdenominational news company Christian Today. Headquartered in the UK, the publication covers topics in the UK and the world, including entertainment, mission and ministries.

A blog publishing interdisciplinary perspectives on secularism, religion, and the public sphere. Affiliated with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere.

“A daily online magazine that publishes a mix of expert opinion, in-depth reporting, and provocative updates from the intersection of religion, politics and culture.”

Reporter James Davis’s blog exploring media spirituality.

A review of religion and media affiliated with New York University.  They describe themselves as, “not so much nonpartisan as polypartisan — interested in all sides, disdainful of dualistic arguments, and enamored of free speech as a first principle.”  They aim to, “publish and link to work by people of all persuasions, religious, political, sexual, […]