Ann Taves is professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She wrote the article “Religion and Same-Sex Relations in the American Context” for the Religious Studies Review.

Gilbert Herdt is professor of sexuality and anthropology at San Francisco State University and director of the National Sexuality Resource Center.

Salim Yaqub is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations and is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he wrote about the relationship between Americans and Arabs in the 1970s.

Robert Cochran Jr. is Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law and director of the Institute on Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. He is the editor of Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions From Calvinism to Islam View American Law.

Juan E. Campo is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in the comparative study of Islam, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and teaches courses on Islamic tradition; religion, politics and society in the Persian Gulf region; Islamic mysticism; and modern Islamic movements.

Alameda Islamica is a weblog run by an informal gathering of San Francisco Bay Area Latino Muslims. Their goal is to bring together hispanics with Islamic beliefs and to educate the community about the religion. They post information about gatherings and classes.

The Islamic Center of Northridge in Northridge, Calif., maintains two local mosques.

The Los Angeles Latino Muslim Association provides information about Islam to the Southern California Latino community.

The Jewish Historical Society of Napa Valley chronicles Jewish life and history in the Northern California winemaking region.