1. Stephen Prothero Religious Literacy Quiz

Prothero avoids the trap of religious relativism by addressing both the core tenets of the world's major religions and the real differences among them. Complete with a dictionary of the key beliefs, characters, and stories of Christianity, Islam, and other religions, Religious Literacy reveals what every American needs to know in order to confront the domestic and foreign challenges facing this country today. Stephen Richard Prothero (/ ˈ p r oʊ ð ə r oʊ /; born November 13, 1960) is an American scholar of religion. He is a professor of religion at Boston University and the author of eight books on religion in America, including the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy. Stephen Prothero, author of American Jesus and chair of the religion department at Boston University, believes there is a crisis at hand in America. The crisis is the lack of religious literacy among America's citizens.

What's Your Religious Literacy IQ? Quick—can you:

If you can't, you're not alone. We are a religiously illiterate nation, yet despite this lack of knowledge, politicians continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed—or misinterpreted—by the vast majority of Americans.

'We have a major civics education problem today,' says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to remedy this, we should return to teaching religion in the public schools.

Alongside 'reading, writing, and arithmetic,' religion ought to become the fourth 'R' of American education. Many believe that America's descent into religious illiteracy was the doing of activist judges and secularists hell-bent on banishing religion from the public square. Prothero reveals that this is a profound misunderstanding. 'In one of the great ironies of American religious history,' Prothero writes, 'it was the nation's most fervent people of faith who steered us down the road to religious illiteracy. Just how that happened is one of the stories this audio has to tell.' Religious Literacy reveals what every American needs to know in order to confront the domestic and foreign challenges facing this country today.

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Stephen Prothero (Author)

Stephen Prothero Religious Literacy Quiz

Stephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One and a professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show w..

Stephen Prothero (Narrator)

Barnstead glass still. Stephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One and a professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show w..