Interfaith Literacy for Multi-Religious Science Promotion
Felipe Ribeiro, Faraday Institute for Religion & Science, Logics And Religion Association (LARA) (Brazil)
Abstract
According to Pew Research, around 84% of the world’s population is religious in 2023. This makes science communication in faith-based-organizations (FBOs) one of the most urgent needs for the scientific methodology literacy required to develop anti-pseudo-sciences harm-reduction programs. Due to the variety of religious traditions and their complex relations, scientific communicators need to develop a minimum rule-of-law knowledge basis concerning the interfaith movement history and how it supported, through its many principle charters, the development of the secular state itself, the laboratoriality empiric compliances, and the many religious scientific institutions that still today fund many skeptic researchers, as Dr. Richard Dawkins. With this we intend in getting fluency in interfaith diplomacy’s ‘humanist language of reverence’, as in differentiating interreligiosity, interfaith, and interconvictionalty. This process’ instructional design will be developed using the following, UNESCO compliant, Open Educational Resource (OER) Open Pedagogy methodology.
Keywords: Science Communication; Scientific Method Historiography; Rule-of-Law; Science Culturla Diplomacy; Science & Religion.
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