Illiteracy and misunderstanding about the religions of others is something that spans the globe and has caused wars, death and suffering for thousands of years but now Harvard’s Divinity School has come up with their own solution to prevent this type of misunderstanding. Five leading professors at Harvard Divinity School and Wellesly College have teamed to create a free online course on world religions and give people an academic understanding about world religions.

The course include’s six classes on different subjects that will each run for four weeks and Diane Moore, director of Harvard’s Divinity School is teaching the first course in the series on “Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures,” which begins on March 1. Following her course there will be five more courses that will cover into specific faiths, including Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism.

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