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Religious literacy [electronic resource] : what every American needs to know--and doesn't / Stephen Prothero.

by Prothero, Stephen R.

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[New York, N.Y.] : Harper Audio, 2007.

Religious education -- United States.

Religions -- Dictionaries.

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What's your religious literacy IQ? Quick--can you: Name the four Gospels? Name a sacred text of Hinduism? Name the holy book of Islam? Name the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament? Name the Ten Commandments? Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism? 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.

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