The Dervish Retreat Center in Spencer, N.Y., holds classes in the whirling dance of the dervish, a form of Sufi prayer.

Sybil MacBeth is the author of Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God, published in 2007. She conducts workshops in drawing and painting as prayer.

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, founder of the  Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Among her most recent works is 613 Radical Acts of Prayer, which takes its name from the Talmudic laws and explores the nature of prayer. The dance company is based in Takoma Park, Md.

Read a Feb. 11, 2009, CBS News story on Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu.

J.J. Adler directed the 2007 documentary Unattached, about single Orthodox Jews in New York City. Watch the trailer.

Read a January 7, 2011, column at the website of First Things that rounds up a number of recent books and articles on views of the Virgin Mary among Protestants.

Kathleen E. Corley is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Her expertise is on the role of women in Christianity, and she wrote an entry titled “The Portrayal of Mary and the Other Women Characters” in the collection Jesus and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the […]

Read a May 23, 2003, National Catholic Reporter review that discusses four new books on Mary.

Read a Dec. 12, 2007, New York Times story about the growing popularity of a theatrical version of the Guadalupe story that is playing beyond the Los Angeles cathedral where it began in 2002.