Diane Moore

Religious-literacy scholar and founding co-director of Union Theological Seminary’s Center for Religion and Public Life. Previously founding faculty director and associate dean of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, she contributed the chapter “Critical Religious Literacy” to Modeling Religious Pluralism.

Pluralism Requires Religious Liberty for Beliefs Majorities Do Not Endorse

Treating religion as a fixed, private or uniform identity obscures the ways it shapes public life, argue Simran Jeet Singh, Diane L. Moore and Asma Uddin in Faith Angle’s discussion of Modeling Religious Pluralism. They define religious literacy as understanding traditions as diverse, evolving and entangled with social power, and argue for a pluralism that protects strong commitments without allowing any one community to make its norms the public default.

The Aspen InstituteAug 21, 202614 min read