Resources for Religion & Education Scholars and Educators

Some Recommend Readings

This is just a selection of relatively recent publications across religion and education scholarship.

Interreligious Studies and Secondary Education: Pedagogies and Practices for Living and Learning in a Religiously Plural World

Edited by Axel Takacs, Christine Gallagher, and Lucinda Mosher

Religious Literacies in Educational Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Kate E. Soules

Routledge, 2025

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ARTICLE: “Sanitized pluralism or civic learning? Religion in NCSS-recommended picture books, 2000–2024” (Amy Allen, Christian Hansen, & Libby Yates)

ARTICE: ‘Enough with the Judaism already’: The experiences of Jewish social studies teachers at public schools (Emma Nicosia)

ARTICLE: Critical Religious Literacy as Equity Literacy: Disrupting Silence in Teacher Education (Erin Reid)

BOOK: Reflections on Religious Literacy: Paradox, Promise, and Politics in a Secular Age (Leo Van Arragon)

BOOK: Modeling Religious Pluralism: Cultivating Religious Equity in Today’s World (ed. Simran Jeet Singh)

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Mapping the Field of Religious Literacy Education: A Working Retreat

Kate Soules April 5, 2024

This working retreat was intended to take stock of the state of the field of religious literacy education in the post-pandemic era and serve as a step toward developing cohesion in the field of K-12 religious literacy education.

Podcasting Pedagogy

Greg Soden October 3, 2023

My Entry into Teaching About Religion From 2013 to 2018, I was a 10th-12th grade English teacher in Columbia, Missouri. My 12th grade course was

Resource Round-Up: Reporting Back from AAR

Kate Soules December 1, 2021

Several REC members presented at and attended the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Antonio (and virtually) a few weeks ago. We can’t

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