Metin Cosgel is professor of economics and department head at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His research interests include the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and the political economy of religion. He co-wrote the papers “Religious Identity and Consumption” and “Rationality, Integrity, and Religious Behavior.”

Lanse P. Minkler associate professors of economics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and director of socio-economic rights at the Human Rights Institute there. He co-wrote the papers “Religious Identity and Consumption” and “Rationality, Integrity, and Religious Behavior.”

Kathleen S. Lowney is a professor of sociology at Valdosta State University in Georgia. She has written about television talk shows and morality.

David Blankenhorn is president of the Institute for American Values. Founded in 1987, the group bills itself as a private, nonpartisan organization “devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life and the sources of competence, character and citizenship.”

Religious news from Spain’s highest-circulation daily newspaper.

A satirical online news magazine addressing faith issues.

Huffington Post’s newsfeed on religion and science.

Faith in Public Life is “a strategy center for the faith community advancing faith in the public square as a powerful force for justice, compassion and the common good.”

Hatewatch keeps “an Eye on the Radical Right” and is managed by the staff of the Intelligence Report, an investigative magazine published by the Alabama-based civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center.