Robert Putnam is the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, where he studies civic connectedness, social capital, and religion and public life. He is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again and Bowling […]

C.N. Le, a senior lecturer professor of sociology and director of Asian and Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, runs the comprehensive Web resource Asian-Nation, which he describes as “a sociological exploration of the historical, political, demographic and cultural issues that make up today’s diverse Asian-American community.” It includes a section on religion and spirituality.

Manish K. Mishra-Marzetti, a Hindu and the son of Indian immigrants, is the senior minister of The First Parish in Lincoln, Mass. He is president of Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries, which serves denominational members of color.

James Carroll is an author and Boston Globe columnist who dissected problems with the association of Islam and fascism in a Jan. 21, 2008, op-ed in The New York Times, “Islamofascism’s ill political wind.”

Kwok Pui Lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. Her books include, as co-editor, the 2007 release Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion & Theology.

Lili M. Kim is Henry R. Luce Assistant Professor of History and Global Migrations at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. Her specialties include Asian-American history.

Thanh V. Tran is a professor of social work at Boston College whose research has included Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese-Americans.

Gale A. Yee, professor of Hebrew Bible at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., can talk about Asian-Americans and the Bible.

Mathew N. Schmalz is a professor of religious studies at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He specializes in global Catholicism, the papacy and Catholicism/culture issues in the U.S. He is the founder of the Journal of Global Catholicism and author of Mercy Matters (2015).