Religious Literacy Project

The world is currently facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, and little substantive aid is forthcoming from Wealthy Western countries, who often politicize refugees as national threats. This panel discusses storytelling, advocacy, and...

Students at a suburban Chicago high school this fall started a pilot program that introduces them to the cultural studies method of teaching religion. The Religious Literacy Project at HDS is promoting the pilot, which featured a visit from RLP director...

Carly Matas graduated from HDS with a master of divinity degree in May 2017. She is now working on her PhD at Princeton University, where she studies contemporary American evangelicalism and media.

"It's pretty difficult to see how you can understand anything about contemporary human affairs without understanding their religious dimensions," said Diane Moore, founder and director of HDS's Religious Literacy Project.

Both secular and faith-inspired international humanitarian organizations would benefit from a higher level of religious literacy to understand the religious dimensions of the contexts in which they work, concludes a new report by researchers from Oxfam...

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, discusses the ways religion can be taught to encourage religious literacy.

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at HDS, will speak Feb. 16 at a Hingham monastery about combating religious discrimination and hate speech.

Around the world, many of the most influential local humanitarian actors are religious leaders. What does that mean for secular aid providers?

What knowledge and assumptions about religion do faith-based and secular international humanitarian agencies have? How do these assumptions impact their work? What kind of knowledge about religion is most useful? Watch A symposium on January 19–20, 2017...

What is the role of religious literacy in humanitarian action? Humanitarian practitioners and leading scholars involved in humanitarian efforts will discuss this question and others during the Symposium on Religious Literacy in Humanitarian Action. The...