Kate Solisti-Mattelon, an animal communicator based in Boulder, Colo., who wrote Conversations with Cat (Council Oaks, 2005), says the field is growing by leaps and bounds.

Dave Burrell is a historian for Historical Insights who has studied American funeral practices and written four papers on the subject. He says one of the major shifts in American funerals and attitudes toward death are that the body is now seen as “symbolically empty.” He lives in the Denver area.

Roberto Corrada, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law, is an expert in the legal history of religion in the workplace issues.

Read a July 2010 Christianity Today article about how court cases are testing RLUIPA’s strength.

Read a Jan. 10, 2011, Boulder Daily Camera article on the RLUIPA dispute involving the Rocky Mountain Christian Church.

Gregory A. Robbins, University of Denver religious studies professor, has taught the course “Jesus on the Silver Screen.”

Pamela M. Eisenbaum is an associate professor of Biblical studies and Christian origins at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. She has written widely about anti-Semitism in its historical contexts.

Thomas Leininger is a professor of religious studies and head of the Catholic Studies Department at Regis University, a Jesuit school in Denver. He can comment on the use of Passion plays and their impact on Christian-Jewish relations.

Stewart M. Hoover is a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an expert on religion and popular culture, focusing on how many people use popular culture to make sense of life in a way religion once was used.