Thomas W. Simons Jr. directs the Program on Eurasia in Transition at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is a fellow at the center. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Islam, South and Southwest Asia, and East-West relations.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is the only museum in the Western Hemisphere with a gallery devoted to Sikh art. Contact the director of public relations.

Harvard University’s Pluralism Project maintains an archive of newspaper and magazine articles published between 1997 and 2011 on different faiths. For recent articles, visit the Religious Diversity News Feed service.

Selected data from Freedom House’s  annual survey of political rights and civil liberties.

News on activities of Vietnamese Buddhists.

A look at the varying degrees of legal recognition Confucianism has experienced in Indonesia throughout history. Written by a student of Universitas Sebelas Maret, a public university in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.

A report on religious freedom and tolerance in Indonesia in 2011 by the Wahid Institute, a nonprofit NGO centered on Islamic and cultural studies and the interaction between the two. The title reads “Red Light on Religious Freedom.”

This report on religious freedom in Indonesia is part of the U.S. Department of State’s 2010 International Religious Freedom Report. The linked document is the Indonesian translation of this English-language document.

News article on Alexander, an Indonesian atheist who was sent to jail in 2012 for saying on his atheist group’s Facebook page that God doesn’t exist. Includes a photo of the convicted.