Vincent J. Miller is a professor of Catholic theology at the University of Dayton. Miller is an expert on religion and politics and the Catholic Church’s role in politics and public policy.

Watch a 2007 Boston Globe video about Romney’s Mormonism.

Read an article from the spring 2011 issue of the scholarly journal Religion in the News about how religious practices predict political beliefs.

Read an Aug. 17, 2011, Washington Post blog post about how religion can be used to predict Tea Partiers.

Read a Dec. 17, 2011, New York Times story about the impact of Newt Gingrich’s religion on the 2012 campaign.

Read a Dec. 27, 2011, New York Times story about how Republican presidential hopefuls have injected religion more overtly than ever into their campaign ads.

empty tomb inc. is a nonprofit that tracks religious giving in the United States.

The World Christian Database at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary provides statistics on world religions, denominations, and groups. It estimates that there are slightly more than 1.1 million Hindus in America.

Dan Hotchkiss is a Unitarian Universalist pastor and a senior consultant with the Alban Institute. In July 2009, he wrote an article for Church Executive magazine about how churches are making do with less from donors in the current economy.