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CAIR: Council on American Islamic Relations, American Muslim News Briefs e-mail list

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BOOKS

The American Jewish Year Book, prepared by the American Jewish Committee

The Catholic Almanac, published by Our Sunday Visitor Books

The Complete Guide to Buddhist America, by Don Morrealeurces

Encyclopedia of World Religions, Merriam-Webster

The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization, IRS Handbook

The World’s Religions, by Huston Smith

The Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, published by the National Council of the Churches of Christ

MAGAZINES

America

Charisma

Christian Century

Christianity Today

Commonweal

Forward

Hinduism Today

Minaret, published by the Muslim Public Affairs Council

National Catholic Register

National Catholic Reporter

Reform Judaism, published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Tikkun

Tricycle

SURVEYS/STATISTICS/OTHER RESOURCES

adherents.com

City University of New York’s American Religious Identification Survey

Google (Internet seach engine)

Hartford Seminary’s national survey, Faith Communities Today

LexisNexis

PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)

The Religious Land Use and Institutonalized Persons Act

U.S. Census

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