David Knowlton is a professor in the behavioral science department at Utah Valley University in Orem. His specialties include the anthropology of Mormonism.

U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a Republican, represents Utah’s 1st District and is a Mormon. He is a former high school teacher of American history and government who served 16 years in the state legislature.

Paul Djupe is a political scientist at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where he specializes in religion and politics. He edits the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series and has written about people of faith’s voting patterns, the religious right and faith-based opposition to socialism.

Laurie M. Johnson is a professor of political science and has taught a course on religion and politics at Kansas State University.

Douglas Firth Anderson is a professor of history with a specialty in American religious history at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.

View a 2012 photo-essay of Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Robert B. Stewart is professor of philosophy and theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has provided an evangelical critique of Mormonism at several conferences.

Read an Oct. 19, 2011 article about the U.S. appropriation of the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Muertos.

J. David Woodard is a professor of political science at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., and author of The New Southern Politics.