Initiatives

Religion and Public Life rests on two central initiatives: Religious Literacy and the Professions, and Religion, Conflict, and Peace. These pillars offer distinctive programming within a wider canopy of offerings designed to support dynamic communities of scholars, teachers, practitioners, and students committed to deepening the public understanding of religion to build a just world at peace.

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Religious Literacy and the Professions

Religious Literacy and the Professions collaborates with professionals working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance a deeper understanding of the complex influences of religions in modern human affairs.

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Religion, Conflict, and Peace

Religion, Conflict, and Peace brings the full resources of Harvard to empower scholars, students, the public, and professionals to address the most complex conflicts facing the world today.