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Religion and Public Life offers free asynchronous, self-paced modules that can be accessed by teachers at any time. While each module includes some introductory materials, these resources are designed for those who have completed training in the RPL method and offer a more in-depth exploration of individual topics. While used by educators in a variety of settings, our training and materials are focused on secondary school teachers (spanning from 7th grade through college). Educators may register for multiple self-paced modules.
Learn more about our ongoing work with a network of educators online here.
Are you an educator who would like to receive updates via e-mail? Send us a line at rpl@hds.harvard.edu and we'll add you to our new communications list for teachers.
Teaching Religious Literacy Through Imagination, & the Arts
The arts and imagination are powerful components of teaching and learning about religious literacy. Like religion itself, art and visual media provide critical windows into the forces shaping dominant worldviews, as well as vehicles for critically re-evaluating and re-imagining them.
This self-paced module includes introductory material, case studies in Islam and Orientalism, and a recorded conversation with RPL Fellow and Ramy writer and producer, Maytha Alhassen.
Register to access the Imagination and the Arts module.
Religious Literacy and Climate Justice
The climate crisis is, in many ways, an unprecedented challenge for humanity. It is also a moment that invites critical questions about our past, our present, and our future possibilities.
This self-paced module looks at the “deep stories” that are told in response to these questions and the role of religion and religious literacy in those narratives. It explores how examination of those stories can promote critical reflection on power, structural peace and violence in climate conversations, and open up new imaginative possibilities.
A recorded conversation with RPL Climate Justice Fellow Teresa Cavazos Cohn, as well as HDS alumnae and secondary school educator Lou Fish-Sadin is included in the module.
Register to access the Climate Justice module.
Religious Literacy and Local Knowledges
Religious literacy seeks to cultivate a nuanced understanding of the forces that shape our world, often through embedding understandings of religion in context and in local, community-based perspectives.
This module includes resources, readings, and exercises look at how an appreciation and understanding of our own and others’ place-based and local knowledges can help our students better understand the principles of religious literacy, cultural violence, and the legacies of colonization that impact who and what we trust as legitimate sources of knowledge. A recorded conversation with RPL Native and Indigenous Rights Fellow Cynthia Wilson is included in the module.
Register to access the Local Knowledges module.
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