This guide offers reporters the tools to navigate the topic of religious persecution at home and abroad, offering background, resources, tips, suggestions and expert sources for your next story.

This Reporting Guide provides extensive background on Hindu nationalism, what it is, where it comes from, what advocacy organizations and human rights groups are saying about it and what the future might hold for Hindutva.

Katie Corcoran is a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. She can discuss religion, religious persecution, organizations, criminology, social movements and social networks. She is co-author of Religious Hostility: A Global Assessment of Hatred and Terror and is working on a book about megachurches.

Michael Austin is a communications consultant and Christian commentator. He is the spokesman for the Christian History Institute. Austin can discuss evolution-creationism debates, Christian persecution and the history of church-state relations. He lives in New York City.