Keith E. Sealing, is dean at Syracuse University’s College of Law in Syracuse, N.Y., tracks court cases involving American Indian religious issues. He has researched whether the First Amendment free-exercise clause should prohibit states from banning religiously motivated polygamy.

Thomas J. Carty is an assistant professor of American studies and history and chair of the Social Sciences Department at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass. He specializes in U.S. religion and politics and is the author of A Catholic in the White House? Religion, Politics and John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign.

Oren R. Lyons is a professor of American studies at State University of New York, Buffalo. He is a faithkeeper in the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, responsible for maintaining and representing customs and traditions of his people. He publishes Daybreak, a national American Indian magazine.

Gulf News is an online news publication for the United Arab Emirates.

gkisedtanamoogk, who is Wampanoag, teaches Native American studies at the University of Maine.

An Egyptian magazine covering topics such as art, culture and politics.

Read a Jan. 31, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle story about homeless youth who are LGBT.

Jane Iwamura is the chair of the religious studies program at the University of the West in Rosemead, Calif. She specializes in Asian-American religions, race and popular culture. She co-edited Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America.

An online publication about the Middle East, published in Saudi Arabia.