Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist monk, is founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, Calif. Kornfield is the author of Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path and other books on Buddhist life.

Read the transcript of an April 27, 2006, Pew panel titled “Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis,” an interview with one of the leading scholars and critics of Islam.

Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies and author of multiple books, including Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015).

See the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report from the U.S. State Department.

The BBC posts a page on the relationship of Islam and the West.

Beliefnet posts a page about interfaith dialogue, which includes links to guidelines about dialogue, interfaith organizations, and essays about interfaith dialogue.

Read the 2006 Reboot poll which found that many young Jews are intensely interested in their Jewish identity but disinterested in Jewish institutional life.

Read a Synagogue 3000 article about the growth of spirituality in the Jewish youth and the national expansion of Judaism.

Read the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly transcript of a Sept. 30, 2005 interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on Jewish renewal movements.