This primer was drafted for the United States Institute of Peace in June 2023 by Susan Hayward, RPL Associate Director for the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, and Htay Wai Naing, recent HDS graduate, Certificate in Religion and Public Life student, and RPL graduate assistant.

"Appreciating the religious dimensions of society, state and politics in Myanmar is essential to understanding the country’s conflicts. This is not easy, as religions in Myanmar are deeply entangled with a complex array of ethnic identities and shaped by dynamic...