Read the three-part essay about African Americans and religion in the nineteenth century written by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, associate professor of religious studies and American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

How can I interview and write about religions I don’t believe in? By Jeffery Sheler U.S. News & World Report* This, I think, raises a basic question of professional ethics every reporter faces regardless of beat. As most of us learned in J-school, standard journalism ethics require that, in reporting and writing the news (as […]

The Hartford Seminary’s Encyclopedia of Religion and Society posts an article on “African American Religious Experience,” edited by William H. Swatos Jr.

Amherst College’s ambitious project, “African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project,” was begun in 1987. It compiled a comprehensive history of African-American religion in a three-volume work published by the University of Chicago Press.

Read an essay at the Hartford Seminary’s Faith Communities Today area about African American denominations from the past to the present.

Roshie Bernie Glassman heads the Massachusetts-based Zen Peacemakers. Contact through assistant Rami.

The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is a membership organization of more than 250 graduate schools in the U.S. and Canada. The organization conducts professional and academic degree programs on the practice of ministry for teaching and research in the theological discipline.

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a national, nonprofit think tank that conducts research on public policy issues concerning African-Americans and offers training and technical assistance to newly elected black officials.

Faith Communities and Urban Families Project published a 2003 research project conducted by the Morehouse College Leadership Center among residents of low-income housing projects and congregations in Indianapolis, Denver, Camden and Hartford.