This Source Guide provides best practices for reporting on religion and AI, with a focus on background, related stories, sources and relevant resources for reporting on how it is already impacting the everyday realities of our spiritual lives.

Holly Walters is an anthropologist at Wellesley College whose work focuses on pilgrimage and politics in the Nepal Himalayas, as well as material culture, divine personhood and ritual practice in South Asia. Her current research addresses the roles of sacred landscapes and digital religious revival in the relationships between Hindus, Buddhists and Bonpos who venerate […]

Pauline Hope Cheong is a professor at Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the complex interactions between communication technologies and different cultural communities around the world — including the socio-cultural implications of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data.

In this edition of ReligionLink we provide background, resources, related stories and expert sources for journalists writing on the numerous intersections between what we eat and what we believe.

Aicha Smith-Belghaba is an Indigenous and Algerian chef of the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve. She is the founder of Esha’s Eats, which not only creates recipes based on her dual heritage, but focuses on issues of Indigenous food sovereignty.

This edition of ReligionLink provides background, relevant stories, resources and expert sources to help you report on rising hate in a time of conflict, political tension and divided opinion.

The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University. The Bridge Initiative aims to disseminate original and accessible research, offers engaging analysis and commentary on contemporary issues, and hosts a wide repository of educational resources to inform the general public about Islamophobia.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization that documents the experiences of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. It has taped more than 50,000 testimonies and produced films and classroom materials. Its mission is to “overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry – and the […]

Arno Rosenfeld is enterprise reporter at the Forward based in Washington, D.C. An award-winning investigative journalist, he has chronicled the Jewish American response to rising fears over antisemitism, covered Jewish college students confronting hostile political climates on campus, reported on local communities grappling with a surge of white supremacist propaganda and exposed the deep rifts […]