Through culturally sustaining teaching, teachers can transform practice and pedagogy to challenge inequities and create a space for affirming students’ diverse religious backgrounds. Teacher educators and teachers must develop this pedagogy to understand diverse student populations and facilitate students becoming citizens who accept and empathize with others who have different religious beliefs and traditions. Our purpose was to explore and select multicultural literature that represents religious diversity for early childhood classrooms. Our search focused on major religions practiced in the U.S., which yielded 549 books. We obtained 436 books; 54 met the rubric criteria with a majority focusing on Judaism. We identified four themes: immigration and refugees, holidays, sharing memories and stories, building understandings and empathy. We offered examples of the themes and an example of implementation in the classroom. We recommended this sample that we believe can foster understanding and respect for diverse religious and cultural groups.

通过保持文化的教学，教师可以转变实践和教学法，以挑战不平等，并为肯定学生的不同宗教背景创造空间。教师教育者和教师必须发展这种教学法，以了解不同的学生群体，并帮助学生成为接受和同情具有不同宗教信仰和传统的其他人的公民。我们的目的是探索和选择代表早期儿童课堂宗教多样性的多元文化文献。我们的搜索集中在美国的主要宗教，共检索到 549 本书。我们获得了436本书；54 人符合标准，其中大多数人关注犹太教。我们确定了四个主题：移民和难民、假期、分享记忆和故事、建立理解和同理心。我们提供了主题示例和课堂实施示例。我们推荐了这个样本，我们认为它可以促进对不同宗教和文化群体的理解和尊重。