Christopher Buck (PhD, JD) attorney and independent scholar, is the author of several books, including: God & Apple Pie (2015), with an introduction by J. Gordon Melton (Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor University), Religious Myths and Visions of America (2009, “an original contribution to American studies,” Journal of American History, June 2011), Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy (2005), Paradise and Paradigm (1999), Symbol and Secret (1995/2004), Religious Celebrations (co-author, 2011), and also contributed chapters in such books as: The Bahá’í Faith and African American History (2019); ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity (2013), American Writers (2017, 2015, 2010 & 2004), British Writers (2017, 2014), The Islamic World (2008), and The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an (2006/2017) (The 2017 printing is the Second Edition; the link is to the 2006 edition.)