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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.

We have a major civic problem on our hands, says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to remedy this problem, we should return to teaching religion in the public schools. Alongside reading, writing, and arithmetic, religion ought to

Religious Literacy

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint Collins
      Published 11 March 2008
      ISBN-13 9780060859527
      978-0060859527
      ISBN-10 0060859520

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      We have a major civic problem on our hands, says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to remedy this problem, we should return to teaching religion in the public schools. Alongside reading, writing, and arithmetic, religion ought to

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