Religious Literacy

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...

"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.

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, provides insight to Politifact, which examined a claim that the U.S. Education Department introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for public schools.

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.

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...

On Thursday, Dec. 8, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, lamented the dearth of good religion journalism in an NPR interview with Terry Gross. On the very same day, the Times's religion reporter, Laurie Goodstein, echoed his concerns...

Through the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, Senior Lecturer Diane Moore hopes to enhance understanding of religions to undercut bigotry and prejudice.