Chunrye Kim is an associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, specializing in studying various aspects of violence within intimate relationships, such as intimate partner violence, stalking and violence against women. She also examines other angles related to these issues, including community-based intervention policies and religion.

Amy Adamczyk is professor of sociology at John Jay College in New York City. Her research includes religion, deviance and crime, sociological theory, sexuality and health.

Melvina Sumter is an associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University. Her research has included religion in prisons, religion and prisoner rehabilitation, and the relationship between religion and crime reduction.

Jacques Berlinerblau is professor of Jewish civilization in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His books include Secularism: The Basics, and he has written numerous other books and scholarly articles on the topic. Berlinerblau can be reached via email or through his publicist, Kelly Hughes.

In this edition of ReligionLink, we orient you to the contours of the current culture wars and provide background and in-depth resources, as well as a selection of relevant stories and sources to turn to.

Tahil Sharma is an interfaith activist based in Los Angeles who was born to a Hindu father and a Sikh mother. After the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, shooting at a Sikh temple in 2012, Sharma became involved in efforts for interfaith literacy and social justice and has been doing this work professionally for the past seven […]

Laura Ansley is senior managing editor at the American Historical Association. In that capacity, she has published articles on the history of the culture wars in Perspectives on History. 

Andrew Hartman is a history professor at Illinois State University and the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015.

Saeed Khan is a professor teaching in Near Eastern Studies at Wayne State University. He argued in 2023 that caught between the competing narratives of ever increasing toxicity in the culture wars, Muslims need to be wary of the pitfalls of choosing sides ahead of the elections.