Alicia Wrenn is vice president of resettlement and integration at HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees and was originally known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Wrenn leads U.S. programs supporting refugees and asylum-seekers.

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 […]

Global Refuge — formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service — offers refugee resettlement, immigrant legal aid and  inclusion programs, asylum assistance, mental health services for migrants, crisis response and advocacy on behalf of American newcomers. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah is president and CEO.

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 […]

Holly Walters is an anthropologist at Wellesley College whose work focuses on pilgrimage and politics in the Nepal Himalayas, as well as material culture, divine personhood and ritual practice in South Asia. Her current research addresses the roles of sacred landscapes and digital religious revival in the relationships between Hindus, Buddhists and Bonpos who venerate […]

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 […]

Search for Common Ground is a Washington D.C. and Brussels-based non-governmental organization that works to end violent conflict and build healthy, safe, and just societies.

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.

Bhakti Mamtora is a scholar of Hinduism and South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona.