Richard Kyle is a professor of history and religion at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kan. He is the author of Evangelicalism: An Americanized Christianity (2006), in which he both praises and criticizes evangelicals for their embrace of secular culture and shows how their ideas about sin, women and private enterprise support the Republican Party platform.

Randall Balmer holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. He is an expert on American religious history and especially American evangelicalism and the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of Evangelicalism in America, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter and God in the White House: How Faith […]

One Night with the King is a biblical epic about the life of the Jewish queen Esther that opened in 850 theaters Oct. 13, 2006. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by charismatic minister Tommy Tenney, it stars Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. Produced by Gener8Xion Entertainment, it was endorsed by the American Bible Society […]

Shaivam.org is a website dedicated to all things regarding worship of the deity Shiva.

Sri Vaishnava is a website devoted to the deity Vishnu and his worship.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) of America is an organization that works to promote Hinduism among transplanted Hindis and to educate others about the religion. Its president is Abhaya Asthana. It is based in Houston, Tex.

The Vedic Foundation is a nonprofit that works “to re-establish the greatness of Hinduism.” The foundation, which is based in Austin, Texas, was a major plaintiff in the California textbook controversy.

Read a February 2004 article in Christianity Today by church historian Martin Marty on the emergence of evangelicals in American society and their great influence in politics.

Read a Jan. 18, 2008, Los Angeles Times story about the 2008 elections and the split between conservative and liberal ideologies among Evangelicals.