Adherents.com provides a list of the numbers of people who self-identify as members of major world religions.

What role should religious demographics play and what are the best sources for such demographics? By Jeffrey Weiss The Dallas Morning News To answer this question, you need to start by considering two others: What do my readers want to know? What do they need to know? What do they want to know? Most people […]

Wendy Griffin is a professor emerita at California State University, Long Beach. She wrote a chapter, “The Goddess Net,” for the book Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet.

Douglas Cowan is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is an expert on the neo-pagan community and has written about the community’s use of the Internet to communicate and share ideas about faith and rituals. He has also published about Mormonism and evangelical practice in North America […]

Helen Berger is a retired professor emerita of sociology at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa. She is an expert on the neo-pagan community and has written about how teen witches in the U.S. and Australia use the Internet.

PaganSpace.net is a social networking site for followers of Earth-based religions, such as Wicca, Asatru, druidism and goddess-based faiths.

Read a Nov. 17, 2004, story from BBC News report of a 10-year-old’s partially eaten toasted cheese sandwich with the image of Mary that drew big attention on eBay.

Check out The Ultimate Vamp-List wesbite for over 4,500 titles of books on vampires and the paranormal.

Read a June 7, 2013 Westword Book Club interview with Lynda Hilburn, author and psychotherapist, about the popularity and therapeutic relief of reading books on the paranormal, vampires and erotic fiction.