Religious literacy

Religious literacy is the knowledge of, and ability to understand, religion. The importance of being religiously literate is increasing as globalisation has created greater links and migration between societies of different faiths and cultures. It has been proposed that including religious literacy as an aspect of public education would improve social cohesion.^[1]

Resources

Religious Literacy Project: Dedicated to enhancing and promoting the public understanding of religion.

Article: Overcoming Religious Illiteracy (2006). World History Connected.

Further reading

• Moore, Diane L. (2007, ISBN 978-1403963499) Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education

References

1. Comprehensive Religious Studies in Public Education: Educating for a Religiously Literate Society. Retrieved on 2009-03-19.