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.

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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. Download Free Power Iso Magic Disk Win more. Just how that happened is one of the stories this book has to tell.'

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.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-called New Atheists have done nothing to change one thing: our world remains furiously religious. For good and for evil, religion is the single greatest influence in the world. Download Fast And Furious 2 Ita Dvdrip Dora.

We accept as self-evident that competing economic systems (capitalist or communist) or clashing political parties (Republican or Democratic) propose very different solutions to our planet's problems. So why do we pretend that the world's religious traditions are different paths to the same God? Torrent La Escuela Del Rock Latino 80. We blur the sharp distinctions between religions at our own peril, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, and it is time to replace na?ve hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. In Religious Literacy, Prothero demonstrated how little Americans know about their own religious traditions and why the world's religions should be taught in public schools. Now, in God Is Not One, Prothero provides readers with this much-needed content about each of the eight great religions. To claim that all religions are the same is to misunderstand that each attempts to solve a different human problem. For example:?Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submission?Christianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvation?Confucianism: the problem is chaos / the solution is social order?Buddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakening?Judaism: the problem is exile / the solution is to return to GodProthero reveals each of these traditions on its own terms to create an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to better understand the big questions human beings have asked for millennia?and the disparate paths we are taking to answer them today.

A bold polemical response to a generation of misguided scholarship, God Is Not One creates a new context for understanding religion in the twenty-first century and disproves the assumptions most of us make about the way the world's religions work. Rating: (not yet rated) Subjects • • • • More like this • •. Find more information about: ISBN: 2201 OCLC Number: 841332413 Notes: Electronic book. Description: 1 online resource 1 online resource (400 pages) Contents: Islam: the way of submission -- Christianity: the way of salvation -- Confucianism: the way of propriety -- Hinduism: the way of devotion -- Buddhism: the way of awakening -- Yoruba religion: the way of connection -- Judaism: the way of exile and return -- Daoism: the way of flourishing -- A brief coda on atheism: the way of reason.