“Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape”
Written by Jenna Miscavige Hill. Hill, niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, writes about her personal experience growing up in the Church of Scientology.
Written by Jenna Miscavige Hill. Hill, niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, writes about her personal experience growing up in the Church of Scientology.
Read an August 13, 2012, article published by the Religion News Service about how the tenets of Islam are interpreted differently around the world.
Founded in 1931, Louhelen Bahá’í School, Retreat and Conference Center in Davison, Mich., offers educational programs for adults and youth.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ report “The Mosque in America: A National Portrait” (April 2001) broke ground with its focus on American Muslim congregational life.
The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies’ “Muslim Americans: A National Portrait” provides demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Muslim Americans and measures attitudes.
A 30-minute documentary called Education Under Fire is drawing attention to Iran’s de facto policy of preventing Bahá’ís from attending universities because of their religious beliefs. The film, produced by Single Arrow Productions and co-sponsored by Amnesty International, documents the growth and struggle of the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, a semi-underground university formed in 1987 to give Bahá’ís in Iran […]
View a two-part series on a Native American Bahá’í family and their children’s local and international service experiences.
Rebecca Y. Kim is an assistant professor of sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Her research includes Korean/Southeast Asian immigrant religious organizations, second-generation Asian-American religious participation and Asian-American intragroup differences. She wrote God’s New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Evangelicals on Campus.
Oliver Wang is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and writes about Asian-American cinema and about music, youth culture, popular culture and politics.