Building Resources for Interfaith Justice (BRIJ) is a nonprofit committed to developing research and curriculum on the histories of religious communities in the U.S. excluded from the traditional American narrative. We provide resources for Americans of all backgrounds to explore questions of religious identity, community, and justice.
The BRIJ Team
Since our founding, we have built a team of college students, recent graduates, professors, and chaplains from different backgrounds. Our diverse team brings together a wealth of experiences, knowledge of religious history and practice, community engagement, and personal commitments to justice and education.
Our Past Work:
We developed and delivered a weekly program for Muslim and Jewish fifth graders at the Islamic and Jewish day schools of Rhode Island. In addition to weekly workshops, we organized BRIJ events at Brown University for the students and their families that reached over 200 community members. In 2020, we completed our BRIJ Fifth Grade Religious Literacy Curriculum Guidebook. The Guidebook is a 70-page manual that includes our lesson plans and materials (text-studies, scripts, activity worksheets), links to interactive PowerPoint presentations, pre- and post- surveys to measure efficacy of the program, best practices for classroom implementation, and samples of student work and journal reflections from the first two years of the program. This completed work serves as the model for our proposed Uncovering Narratives Curriculum Guidebook
Since our founding, we have built a team of college students, recent graduates, professors, and chaplains from different backgrounds. Our diverse team brings together a wealth of experiences, knowledge of religious history and practice, community engagement, and personal commitments to justice and education.
Our Past Work:
We developed and delivered a weekly program for Muslim and Jewish fifth graders at the Islamic and Jewish day schools of Rhode Island. In addition to weekly workshops, we organized BRIJ events at Brown University for the students and their families that reached over 200 community members. In 2020, we completed our BRIJ Fifth Grade Religious Literacy Curriculum Guidebook. The Guidebook is a 70-page manual that includes our lesson plans and materials (text-studies, scripts, activity worksheets), links to interactive PowerPoint presentations, pre- and post- surveys to measure efficacy of the program, best practices for classroom implementation, and samples of student work and journal reflections from the first two years of the program. This completed work serves as the model for our proposed Uncovering Narratives Curriculum Guidebook
Our Partners
We are grateful to the organizations and centers who support our work: the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, ReligionAndPublicLife, Interfaith America, the Rhode Island Foundation, the Brown University Community Building Fund, the Brown Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, the Swearer Center for Public Service, and Partners in Peace.
We are grateful to the organizations and centers who support our work: the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, ReligionAndPublicLife, Interfaith America, the Rhode Island Foundation, the Brown University Community Building Fund, the Brown Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, the Swearer Center for Public Service, and Partners in Peace.