Zsuzsanna Budapest — more commonly known as Z Budapest — is one of the founders of the revival of Earth-based, women-focused spirituality movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of more than a dozen books on women’s spirituality and Earth-based religions and teaches in San Francisco.

Arisika Razak is a professor of philosophy, religion and women’s spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she focuses on the lives and spirituality of indigent women and women of color. She is a practitioner of Earth-based spirituality.

Read a Jan. 26, 2013, post about eco-spirituality on Patheos’ Sermons From the Mound blog. Yvonne Aburrow, a Wiccan, is the author.

Read a July 15, 2009, media release about Witch School’s booklet comparing Harry Potter with “real witches.”

Read a Oct. 5, 2005, media release arguing that the Harry Potter books series pits sorcery against traditional Judeo-Christian values.

The Reference Desk’s Religion page provides resources on all types of religion.

National Library of Medicine’ National Institutes of Health offers an essay from 1993 on the psychology of Cults.