This July, K-12 teachers from Maine, Kentucky, Minnesota, Arizona, California and many other places (including New York City) are attending our “Religious Worlds of New York” #NEHsummer institute, to focus on teaching about religious diversity in public and private schools. Throughout the institute, these teachers work with leading scholars of religion, meet with diverse religious leaders, visit local houses of worship, explore the religious life of the city, and develop their own religious diversity curriculum projects. This combination of classroom and community-based education introduce the institute teachers/scholars to American religious diversity, help them distinguish between academic and devotional approaches to the study of religion, and give them the pedagogic tools they need to teach about contemporary lived religion. Learn about these teachers/scholars and their work here.
