Martin Luther King, Jr., as a Pluralist Theologian
Dr. Roy Whitaker
Dr. Roy Whitaker
Dr. Roy Whitaker is a professor at San Diego State University in the department of Religious Studies.
Religion and the First Amendment
Damon Huss
Damon Huss
Damon Huss is a lawyer and senior editor for the Constitutional Rights Foundation and serves on the steering committee for The California Three Rs Project.
Religion and Cesar Chavez
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett is Professor of Religious Studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of "Holy Activist, Secular Saint: Religion and the Social Activism of Cesar Chavez," in Gaston Espinosa and Mario T. Garcia, eds., Mexican American Religions (Duke University Press, 2008).
Cult is a Four-Letter Word
Rebecca Moore
Rebecca Moore
Rebecca Moore is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple (Praeger, 2009) and Women in Christian Traditions (NYU Press, 2015).
Religion in the Novels of Rudolfo Anaya
Alex Espinoza
Alex Espinoza
Alex Espinoza teaches creative writing in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of the novel Still Water Saints (Random House, 2007) about growing up Latino in California. He serves on the California Humanities Board of Directors.
Islam in America: Muslims in the American Community
Najeeba Syeed-Miller
Najeeba Syeed-Miller
Najeeba Syeed-Miller is Assistant Professor of Interreligious Education at the Claremont School of Theology. She has a law degree and expertise in conflict resolution.
Judaism in America
Aaron Gross
Aaron Gross
Aaron Gross is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. He is the author of The Question of the Animal and Religion (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Drinking the Kool-Aid
Rebecca Moore
Rebecca Moore
Rebecca Moore is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple (Praeger, 2009) and Women in Christian Traditions (NYU Press, 2015).
The Difference between Race and Ethnicity
Howard Winant
Howard Winant
Howard Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of Racial Formation in the United States (Routledge, 1986).
Sikhism from the Punjab to California
Gurinder Singh Mann
Gurinder Singh Mann
Gurinder Singh Mann is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Sikhism (Pearson, 2004) and Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America (Oxford, 2002).
Religion in the Novels of John Steinbeck
Susan Shillinglaw
Susan Shillinglaw
Susan Shillinglaw is Professor of English at San Jose State University. She is the author of On Reading the Grapes of Wrath (Penguin, 2014). She directs the National Steinbeck Center.
