Strengthening the public's understanding of religion and promoting respect among people of diverse faith traditions

This grant will support the Faithful Friends Exhibition project, which seeks to encourage children and families to build tolerance, respect and love for those who have religious beliefs and traditions different from their own.

This grant will support the reconstruction of the original First Baptist Church, the first church in the Williamsburg established by enslaved and free Black Americans. The grant will a help Colonial Williamsburg establish a history interpretation program at the church site.

This grant will support development of an exhibition of yogini sculpture. The project will bring together 10 to 12 life-sized stone sculptures depicting the south Indian goddesses and challenge monolithic views of Hindu beliefs and practices.

This grant will help increase the public’s understanding of the role religion has played in Mississippi history. New programs will focus on the state’s religious history, engage religious communities in the state and strengthen public access to archival collections related to religion.

This grant will support development of a new visitors experience at Angel Mounds Historic Site located in southwest Indiana. Angel Mounds contains 12 earthen mounds built by indigenous communities for ceremonial and residential purposes between the years 1050 and 1450.

This grant will support a joint project at the Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum of Yorktown to integrate religion throughout galleries and living history spaces to foster dialogue about the role of religion in early American history. The effort will focus the convergence of European, Native American and African cultures in colonial Virginia.

This grant will support the King Center’s A Question of Faith project. An exhibition will trace Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.’s religious journey and the role of faith communities during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Internships and fellowships will help scholars and students to explore the religious motivations of the movement and their ongoing implications.

This grant will support the Enhancing Public Understanding of Religious Cultures project to encourage dialogue and research about the religious beliefs and practices of African and Middle Eastern cultures. The library will also digitize Ethiopian religious manuscripts and develop an artist-in-residence program.

This grant to the Indiana University Foundation will help Lilly Library create an endowed curator of religious collections. The curator will  develop programs featuring library holdings related to a broad diversity of religious traditions and include digital content, exhibitions within the library and online exhibitions

This grant will support the creation of the Interpreting Religion at Mount Vernon project at the Mount Vernon historic site, which is dedicated to preserving the estate of George Washington and educating the public about his legacy. The new project will incorporate religion into interpretations of early American history.

This grant will support the Religion and the First Amendment Initiative. A permanent exhibition on the First Amendment will examine how religious liberty has been applied, protected, challenged, debated and interpreted throughout U.S. history.

This grant will support the creation of an exhibition about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of Black performers from Nashville’s Fisk University that broke racial barriers in the late 1800s by increasing awareness of African American spirituals across the United States and around the world.

This grant will support development of a traveling exhibition, Milagros Mexicanos – Popular Faith and the Arts.  The exbibit will portray how religious beliefs and spirituality in ancient Mexico are reflected in popular cultures in Mexico and in the United States.

This grant will support development of the Intersectionality: Religion and Social Justice project. It will feature a traveling exhibition that explores the relationship among Christianity, Judaism and Islam and historical movements for social justice.

This grant will establish an endowment for the director for the Program on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust and  help expand programming in religion. Efforts will include helping clergy and other religious thought leaders examine the relationship between the Holocaust and Christian traditions.

This grant will support the museum’s renovation of its core exhibition space to expand public understanding of Judaism and promote a greater respect for people of diverse religious backgrounds. It will incorporate religious objects, images and texts from different Jewish traditions.