Courses and Tools
Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures
Harvard University. free online course
Religion Profiles
Religious Literary Project. Harvard Divinity School
Pluralism Project religions resource
Harvard University
Faith4Rights Toolkit
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2021.
Religions & Peace Academy online course
Institute for Economics & Peace. 2021
Understanding the Branches of Islam
Sebastian Kusserow and Patryk Pawlak. European Parliamentary Research Service. 2016.
Religious Literacy Primer: For Crises, Disasters, and Public Health Emergencies
Published by the University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture and the National Disaster Interfaiths Network. Basic information on the 23 largest religious groups in the U.S. 2014.
Religions, Politique & Relations Internationales
A bibliography from the French Foreign Ministry providing resources on religious traditions and world regions.
Engaging with Local Faith Actors and Communities: A Toolkit
Particular focused on religious engagement in the context of COVID-19. ACT Alliance EU, Caritas Europa, EU-CORD and Islamic Relief Worldwide. 2020.
Newsletters and Blogs
Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin
A monthly resource for religious and faith-based leaders produced by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Religion and Global Society
A blog hosted by the London School of Economics.
Bulletin - Observatoire international du religieux
A monthly bulletin published by the International Observatory of Religious Facts (OIR), a research initiative based at Sciences Po and funded by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces.
Reports
The Instrumentalization of Religion in Conflict
Published by the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. Co-authored by Owen Frazer and Jean-Nicolas Bitter. 2020.
Toward a Religion-Attentive Foreign Policy: A Report on an Anglo-American Dialogue
Judd Birdsall, Jane Lindsay, and Emma Tomalin. University of Leeds. 2015.
Diplomacy and Religion: Seeking Common Interests and Engagement in a Dynamically Changing and Turbulent World
Published by the Brookings Institution. Available in English and Arabic.
Religious Engagement Guidelines
Databases
Ressources Pédagogiques
A database of reports and journal articles from the Institut Européen en Sciences de Religions providing analysis of particular religious traditions.
Centres
Observatoire Pharos
A leading French think tank on religion
Journals