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 […]

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.

Asra Nomani is an Indian American journalist and Federalist contributor, who — among other things — is outspoken in opposing critical race theory and gender diversity in education, which she has described as divisive ideologies.

Throughout 2024 — and, really, any time politics are in the news, which is always — we will see familiar narratives about what religious voters are doing. Pundits will ask who they are backing and why, what messaging and issues mobilize them. What will emerge is a version of events that conflates political conservatism with […]

Michael Salemink is executive director of Lutherans for Life, a nonprofit that organizes Lutherans to advocate for issues concerning the “sanctity of life.”

In this edition of ReligionLink we provide background, resources, related stories and expert sources for journalists writing on the numerous intersections between what we eat and what we believe.

Ruth Illman is director of the Donner Institute for Research into Religion and Culture at Åbo Akademi University Foundation (SÅA) in Turku, Finland. Her research concerns questions pertaining to Jewish life in the Nordics today, cultural encounters and interreligious dialogue, ethnographic research methodology within cultural studies. She was co-editor of a volume on religion and […]

This Reporting Guide provides extensive background on Hindu nationalism, what it is, where it comes from, what advocacy organizations and human rights groups are saying about it and what the future might hold for Hindutva.

The Coalition of Hindus of North America is an advocacy group whose stated goal is to protect, preserve and educate the public about Hindu heritage and tradition.