Timothy Tseng is the former president of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity in Castro Valley, Calif., and has been researching the history of Chinese Protestantism in North America. He led a Pulpit & Pew study on Asian-American religious leadership that can be downloaded.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda is president of the International Vedic Hindu University in Orlando, Fla. (formerly Hindu University of America). The university provides education on yoga and Hinduism. He founded the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam international movement for meditation.

Aytzim, meaning “trees” in Hebrew, is an organization that works to provide resources to promote environmental activism in Israel, the Middle East and throughout the Jewish Diaspora. They seek to bridge the differences between and within religions and people, helping to build a peaceful and sustainable future for Israel and the Middle East. The group maintains […]

Prema Kurien is a professor of sociology at Syracuse University. Her books include A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism and Ethnic Church Meets Mega Church: Indian American Christianity in Motion.

Written by Lucas A. Catton. Catton discusses his personal experience as a Scientologist and explains the inner workings of the Church’s Narconon network.

Jessie L. Embry is associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Her books include, as author, Asian American Mormons: Bridging Cultures.

Written by Jenna Miscavige Hill. Hill, niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, writes about her personal experience growing up in the Church of Scientology.

United Sikhs is an international nonprofit group that works to help underprivileged and minority communities. The U.S. office is in New York.

Written by Janet Reitman. Reitman describes the book as “the first objective modern history of the Church of Scientology.”