While nearly 1 in four people identify as Muslim across the globe, a Pew Research survey in 2019 found that only six-in-ten U.S. adults know that Ramadan is an Islamic holy month and that Mecca is Islam’s holiest city and a place of pilgrimage for Muslims.  Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Muslim […]

The Journal of Muslim Mental Health is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal and publishes articles exploring social, cultural, medical, theological, historical and psychological factors affecting the mental health of Muslims in the United States and globally. It is published through the department of psychiatry of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University. Hamada Hamid […]

Michael Austin is a communications consultant and Christian commentator. He is the spokesman for the Christian History Institute. Austin can discuss evolution-creationism debates, Christian persecution and the history of church-state relations. He lives in New York City.

The Southern Cross the official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego. 

Michael Serazio is an assistant professor of communication at Boston University, in Boston, Mass. In January 2013, he wrote an essay for The Atlantic likening sports fans’ use of team icons to religious totems.

Jewish Baseball News, where the motto is “News and stats on Jews with bats,” tracks professional baseball players of Jewish heritage from farm teams to the major leagues. It maintains a list of current Jewish baseball players. Scott Barancik is the editor.

Scholars and comic book creators contributed essays to this book. Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis are its co-editors.

Art Ayris is CEO of Kingstone Media, a Florida-based company whose goal is “to become the ‘Marvel’ of the faith market, the leading publisher of Christian comic books and Biblical worldview graphic novels worldwide.”

Read a Nov. 29, 2013, Deseret News article about the increasing emergence of comic books and graphic novels in which religion is not simply alluded to, but central to the story.