Muslim Community Center

It is an organization in Chicago with an education center in Morton Grove.  They offer membership services, which include counseling, marriage and funeral arrangements, and prayer sessions.

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Dick Staub

Dick Staub is a radio show host who runs Staublog, a blog in which he rates films, television and other forms of entertainment for its religious and moral value. He is based in Seattle.

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Rich Remsberg

Rich Remsberg is a documentary photographer who lives in North Adams, Mass., and is the author of Riders for God: The Story of a Christian Motorcycle Gang (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

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Sally Promey

Sally Promey is professor of religion and visual culture, professor of American studies,  and deputy director of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale. She wrote a book about the public display of religion in the United States.

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Patrick A. Polk

Patrick A. Polk is a lecturer in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, he was the guest curator of an exhibit at the Fowler Muesum on roadside religious displays found throughout Los Angeles.

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Karal Ann Marling

Karal Ann Marling is a professor of art history at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She has written about religion and Disney, the American highway, Elvis, Christmas and the Vietnam Memorial.

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Gordon Lynch

Gordon Lynch is the Michael Ramsey professor of modern theology at the University of Kent. He is the author of Understanding Theology and Popular Culture (Blackwell, 2005).

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Donna Freitas

Donna Freitas has taught religious studies at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. She has written about the spirituality of dating and chastity. She wrote Sex & the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America’s College Campuses (2008) and co-wrote Save the Date: A Spirituality of Dating, Love, Dinner and the Divine.

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Dane Claussen

Dane Claussen is James Pedas professor of communication, Executive Director of the James Pedas Communication Center, and Chair of the department of media, comm. and public relations  at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa. He is an expert on Promise Keepers and other “masculine Christianity” movements.  

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