Best practices

• Finding the right tools • Get oriented • Get out • Preaching, teaching & proselytizing • Getting titles right • Redefine the religion beat • Rely on people power • Report news and nuance • Remain calm amid conflict • Embrace diversity • Judge not, lest ye be judged • It's a miracle! • Sharpen your pencils • Columns and the brave new world of blogging

Resources

• Numbers • Experts • Web sites • Books and yearbooks

A roundup of religions
• The world’s largest belief systems
• The big three:

• Christianity   • Roman Catholics • Evangelicals • Mainline Protestants • Pentecostals • Orthodox • African-American • Hispanic • Asian • Judaism • Islam

• Beyond the big three

• Hinduism • Buddhism • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Sikhism • New Religious Movements • Visiting places of worship

Religion outside the box

• Introduction • Spirituality • Ethics and values • Interfaith efforts • Religion in the public square

Issues for reporters and editors

• Introduction • Revealing personal beliefs • Reporting on people you disagree with • Conflicts of interest • Ethics

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