The Buddhist Peace Fellowship works for peace from diverse Buddhist perspectives. It’s based in Berkeley, Calif. Dawn Haney and Katie Loncke are co-directors.

The Public Influences of African-American Churches Project conducted focus groups and surveyed black congregations and church leaders over three years to learn about congregational involvement in elections and setting public policy since the civil rights era. Despite the existence of 8,000 black elected officials and dozens of black civic and lobbying organizations, the survey found that black churches […]

The Pew Research Center surveyed religious groups about their reactions to the 2006 elections, about religious mobilization in congregations and about attitudes toward 2008 presidential candidates. Data is presented for black Protestants.

Muslim Peace Fellowship was founded in 1994 as one of the first Muslim organizations specifically devoted to the theory and practice of Islamic nonviolence. Contact through the form on the group’s website.

Read coverage of the Egypt conflict at The Washington Post‘s “On Faith” blog.

The Faith Communities Today (FACT) surveys by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Cooperative Congregations Studies Partnership include statistics on historically black denominations.

Read a Jan. 27, 2011, story in The New York Times about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on protests in Egypt.

Survey Documentation and Analysis (using data from the General Social Surveys from 1972-2004) shows that 75.7 percent of blacks are Protestant, 6.5 percent are Catholic, 0.2 percent are Jewish, 7 percent are “Other” and 10.6 percent do not identify with a religious group.

The Episcopal Peace Fellowship began in the early days of World War II and continues to speak out against war in the Episcopal community.