Read an essay by Melissa Harris Lacewell ( Harris-Perry)posted on the Martin Marty Center website about African-American religion and its relationship to politics and voting.

James Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute in Washington, D.C.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics 2012. He has said Americans increasingly vote as they pray or don’t pray.

Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2004).

Russell Arben Fox is a political science professor at Friends University in Wichita, Ks. On In Medias Res, a blog of his writings, he has written that the Democratic Party has abandoned religious progressives. He has called for transformation of America’s political and party system.

Read about Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy, who tries to incorporate Christian teachings into the work ethic of his huge and popular business, including closing his fast-food outlets on Sundays. Chick-fil-A was embroiled in controversy in 2012 following a series of comments by Cathy opposing same-sex marriage.

Read a Feb. 1, 2005, Boston Globe story about conflicts over religion in the workplace.

A March 12, 2005, Washington Post story about 30 Dell employees who walked off their jobs after being told they couldn’t pray according to Muslim practice.

A March 18, 2005, New York Sun article about the reintroduction in Congress of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act.