The Bertram M. Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty is at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y. Anita Lightburn is director and associate professor of social service.

The Dervish Retreat Center in Spencer, N.Y., holds classes in the whirling dance of the dervish, a form of Sufi prayer.

David A. Harris is executive director of the American Jewish Committee, a nonpartisan organization that conducts an annual survey of American Jews.

The Berman Jewish DataBank has links to the National Jewish Population Study and several other studies, some of which provide different figures for the overall Jewish population.

The Poverty Initiative is based at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and was established in May 2003. Its goal is to “to raise up generations of religious and community leaders dedicated to building a social movement to end poverty, led by the poor,” and it brings together scholars and grass-roots organizations. Contact the coordinator […]

Robert Black teaches economics at Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y. He has written about Christian principles in economics.

Isam Salah heads Islamic finance and investment at the New York law firm King & Spalding.

Charles Clark is an economics professor at St. John’s University in New York and an expert on Catholic social teaching and economics.

Robert Bruce Mullin is a history professor at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. He has written about miracles and religious imagination and wrote the entry on miracles for The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought.