The Institute for Religious Research is a United States Christian apologetics organization based in Cedar Springs, Michigan.
 It declares itself to be a non-denominational, non-profit Christian foundation for the study of religious claims, and was formerly known as Gospel Truths Ministries.
 IRR is a member of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions and was headed by Luke P. Wilson until his death in 2007.
 Concurrent with the release of The DaVinci Code, the Baptist Press noted IRR's Ronald V. Huggins and his apologetic analysis of the film.
 IRR's current staff includes Robert M. Bowman Jr., executive director, and Joel Groat, ministry director (specializing in Latin America).
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist and intellectual property consultant.
 He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of tens of books and articles in the field of sociology of religion.
 He was the main author of the "Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia" (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy).
 He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion.
 and of the advisory board of University of California Press' Nova Religio.
 He is also a consultant on intellectual property rights.
 From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
 In June 2012, he was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as chairperson of the newly instituted Observatory of Religious Liberty, created by the Ministry in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
Gang Il-sun, (강일순, Chinese 姜甑山) (September 19, 1871 – June 24, 1909), also known as Kang Il-sun and known to his followers as Kang Jeungsan, is the founder of a Korean religious movement that generated after his death around one hundred different new religions, including Daesoon Jinrihoe and Jeung San Do.
 Jeungsanism, as his movement was called, and various Korean new religions ("sinheung jonggyo", literally, "newly emerged religions") derived from it, have been seen by scholars as a syncretism of Buddhism ("Bul-gyo"), Confucianism ("Yu-gyo"), Taoism ("Do-gyo"), certain elements borrowed from Christianity ("Gidok-gyo") and an underlying Korean shamanism ("Musok-Sinang").
The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions: The Essential Guide to Their History, Their Doctrine, and Our Response is a Christian countercult non-fiction book on cults and new religious movements, written by Ron Rhodes, Ph.D. The book was published by Zondervan on September 1, 2001.
 The book defines cults and new religions by examining case studies of twelve groups chosen by Rhodes.
 The book includes a foreword by Lee Strobel, author of the book "The Case for Christ".
Lee Patrick Strobel (born January 25, 1952) is an American Christian author and a former investigative journalist.
 He has written several books, including four which received ECPA Christian Book Awards (1994, 1999, 2001, 2005) and a series which addresses challenges to a Biblically inerrant view of Christianity.
 Strobel also hosted a television program called "Faith Under Fire" on PAX TV, and runs a video apologetics web site.
 Strobel has been interviewed on numerous national television programs, including ABC's "20/20", Fox News, and CNN.
Catherine Wessinger is a professor of religious studies at Loyola University New Orleans with a main research focus on millennialism, new religions, women and religion and religions of India.
 Wessinger is co-general editor of and served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during the Montana Freemen standoff.
Harold L. Busséll is a pastor and author.
 He has a B.A. from Bethany College in Biblical Studies, M.A. in Psychology from Santa Clara University and a Doctorate of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological Seminary.
 Between 1968 and 1970 he served with Teen Challenge Paris, a Christian outrach program that works with drug addicts in Paris, France.
 His book "Unholy Devotion - Why Cults Lure Christians", (later renamed, "By Hook or by Crook : How Cults Lure Christians") talks about his experiences while in Europe.
 Bussell has written, "my wife and I were involved with an Evangelical youth mission based in Switzerland.
 We were with the group only six weeks, but it was almost seven years before I had overcome the psychological damage caused by their cult-like control and spiritualization...Questioning a leader was considered an act of rebellion against God and His chain of command."
 Bussell went on to become a pastor in Saratoga, California.
 He also served as one of the Deans at Gordon College.
 Serving as Senior Pastor from 1984 to 1996 at the First Congregational Church in Hamilton, Massachusetts, a mainline church affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
 The New York Times recognizes Bussell as an author who has written books about mind control and religious groups.
 Christianity Today noted Bussell as a pastor who has "experienced spiritual warfare."
 Paul R. Martin has noted Bussell's opinion on recovery from what they refer to as cults, that "a clear understanding of the gospel is the single most important issue in a cultist's recovery and future immunity from further cultic involvement."
A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule).
 Often created to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief system, a parody religion can be a parody of several religions, sects, gurus, cults, or new religious movements at the same time or even a parody of no particular religion, instead parodying the concept of religious belief itself.
 In some parody religions, emphasis is on having fun and being a convenient excuse for pleasant social interaction among the like-minded (e.g., the Church of the SubGenius).
 Other parody religions target a specific religion, sect, cult, or new religious movement.
Jonathan Zittell Smith (J. Z. Smith) is a historian of religions. His research includes the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Māori cults in the 19th century, and the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
 His works include "Map is Not Territory, Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown," "To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual," "Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity," and "Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion".
Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan.
 In Japanese they are called shinshūkyō (新宗教 ) or shinkō shūkyō (新興宗教 ) .
 Japanese scholars classify all religious organizations founded since the middle of the 19th century as "new religions"; thus, the term refers to a great diversity and number of organizations.
 Most came into being in the mid-to-late twentieth century and are influenced by much older traditional religions including Shinto, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
 Western influences include Christianity, the Bible and the writings of Nostradamus.

Question: The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions includes a foreword by the journalist who hosted what television program?
Answer: Faith Under Fire