
Category: Beliefs & practices


Spiritual statecraft: Resources for reporting on religion and diplomacy
This Source Guide includes background, resources, stories and experts who can help you cover religion’s role in global diplomacy.

Religion at work: A guide to reporting on faith and labor
In this guide, ReligionLink offers background, resources and sources to help you understand — and report on — the many intersections between religion and labor.

Ethnographic Religion Reporting
When asked to make predictions about newswriting for 2021, Kevin D. Grant, co-founder & chief development officer of the nonprofit news organization GroundTruth Project, forecasted the end of “parachute journalism.” For both practical and ideological reasons, Grant believed the practice of sending journalists into a community they are unfamiliar with to tell a story after traveling […]

A pilgrim’s progress: Resources for reporting on religious journeys
This source guide provides background and resources to help you report on holy expeditions across the world, with a range of relevant stories and experts to reference along the way.

Hindu nationalism: A roundup of reporting and resources
This edition of ReligionLink provides background on what Hindu nationalism is, stories that show how it is influencing politics across the globe and experts to help you better understand its heady mix of ideological politics and national identity.

Reporting on New Religious Movements (NRMs)
“New Religious Movement” is one of those tricky, catch-all terms that can refer to lots of different communities, including ones that have very little in common. Broadly, a New Religions Movement (NRM) is a religious group that came into existence more recently (typically somewhere around the 19th century or later). Other terms include alternative spiritualities, […]

Establishment v. Expression: A primer on this term’s religion-related cases
This month’s edition of ReligionLink includes background explainers, resources, and experts for covering the most relevant, religion-related cases the Supreme Court is set to decide on — or has recently passed a ruling on — this term.

Reporting on Religion & Climate Change
Catastrophic extreme weather events like droughts, floods and wildfires impact communities across the world as leaders continue to grapple with balancing energy needs and the global push for climate action. Although skepticism persists, a broad swath of faith communities advocate for policy change, fight for climate justice, establish creation care ministries, embrace solar energy, plant gardens […]