Amherst College’s ambitious project, “African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project,” was begun in 1987. It compiled a comprehensive history of African-American religion in a three-volume work published by the University of Chicago Press.

Read a Jan. 28, 2011, essay, “Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” by Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution.

Read a Jan. 28, 2011, background article on the Muslim Brotherhood by CNN.com.

A Jan. 29, 2011, post at USA Today‘s “Faith & Reason” blog rounds up articles on the religious import of the Egyptian situation.

“Copts say Egypt regime change trumps Islamist fears,” is a Feb. 1, 2011, story from Reuters.

Read a Feb. 2, 2011, story from EthicsDaily.com about the Christian response to the conflict in Egypt.

Read a Feb. 2, 2011, analysis from a Reuters correspondent in Turkey.

Read a Feb. 2, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times by Scott Atran, author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists. Atran argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely ineffectual.

Read “5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel,” a Feb. 3, 2011, column at ReligionDispatches.org by Haroon Moghul.