- Religion is a very personal experience.

It is also social and highly political.

(upbeat music) - We've always had religious diversity on campus.

- A lot of people don't even think that Lakota people are invested in our traditions or practices.

- Growing up I was raised like evangelical, conservative Christian.

- My dad's side of the family is Catholic and my mom's side of the family is Jewish.

But I don't come from a very religious upbringing.

- It's important that students who do profess a particular religion or religious perspective don't feel that they have to check their religion at the gate when they come onto campus.

- I struggled to find a difference and a balance between all of my identities.

I do find a lot of community of students who are going through the exact same thing.

And who can relate on almost every level which I have found in the Muslim Student Association.

- It's very tough to understand you know what different communities of people face when you don't understand their core principles.

- It's not diverse views that's the problem.

It's not disagreement that's the problem, it's that we need to cultivate a higher tolerance for leaning into what's uncomfortable and for engagement with diverse views.

- What happens when you become more religiously literate is the students gain a vocabulary to talk about religion in the public sphere.

To talk about religion amongst people of other religious perspectives.

Religious literacy increases the ability to think about the spectrum of ideas.

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