Conn. Seminars Tackle 'Religious Illiteracy' in Classrooms.

RELIGIOUS literacy; RELIGIOUS studies; HISTORY teachers; RELIGION & culture; ECONOMICS & religion; RELIGION & society; TEACHER education; MOORE, Diane L.; TRAINING

The article discusses the Hartford Teacher Education Project in Connecticut which introduces secondary school history teachers to the cultural-studies method of teaching about religion. The program emphasizes religions' internal diversity and the relationship of religion to culture, economics, and society. The program is part of the religious illiteracy in the classroom and in society, advocated by its leader Harvard Divinity School professor Diane L. Moore.