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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't

Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't

Prothero, Stephen

Paperback

Comparative ReligionReligion General General United States History

ISBN10: 0060859520
ISBN13: 9780060859527
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: Mar 11 2008
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Religious Literacy presents a compelling argument for Bible-literacy courses. - Time magazine

The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.

  • Only 10 percent of American teenagers can name all five major world religions and 15 percent cannot name any.
  • Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible holds the answers to all or most of life's basic questions, yet only half of American adults can name even one of the four gospels and most Americans cannot name the first book of the Bible.

Despite this lack of basic knowledge, politicians and pundits continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed--or misinterpreted--by the vast majority of Americans.

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