Group Advocates Teaching Students Religion From a Believer’s Perspective

When an educator is teaching students about a religion other than his or her own, he or she should act as though a believer of that religion is present and teach the religion from the perspective of that believer. That’s some of the advice that was given at a two-day workshop on the teaching of other religions sponsored in March by the United States Institute of Peace and summarized in a recent report by the institute. The United States Institute for Peace is a nonpartisan federal institution created by the U.S. Congress to promote the peaceful...