Religious Literacy and Community Engagement: A Virtual Workshop

WIN is excited to host "Religious Literacy and Community Engagement: A Virtual Workshop" with religious literacy specialist Benjamin Marcus. This interactive call will provide frameworks for understanding our complex religious identities, religious literacy, and how these play a role in reducing prejudice and violence. 

Benjamin Marcus, the religious literacy specialist at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum, will facilitate an hour-long virtual workshop for the Wyoming Interfaith Network. After discussing research about America's increasingly diverse religious landscape, we will analyze frameworks for making sense of changing and complex religious identities. The two primary frameworks covered by the workshop, which come from the field of religious literacy, are designed in part to combat the biases and prejudices that fuel violence. We will use these frameworks to diagram and explain our own religious and non-religious identities. Then we will discuss strategies for dialogue and action that better account for our…