Simran Singh

Assistant Professor of Interreligious Histories at Union Theological Seminary, author and editor of Modeling Religious Pluralism, and former Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program. His public work focuses on religious pluralism, equity, bias, and empathy.

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