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title: "Religious Literacy"
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# Religious Literacy

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- **What is this?** Religious Literacy by stephen prothero
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    Is this what we are looking for?
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2009*

My friends, "Is this what you are looking for?"  I guess that if you are looking for something in specific and you do not get it you might feel disappointed.  Perhaps sometimes we are looking for shortcuts to gaining huge amounts of knowledge, and actually I think there aren't many.  Knowledge and wisdom are acquired through a lifetime process in which each one of us need to embark in a quest for it, not necessarily depending upon one book only.  What I mean is that religion, which is the theme that concerns us now and that is dealt with in this book, is a topic much too deep to be discussed in one book speaking of each of them individually.  My opinion is that each religion therefore should be analyzed independently in texts written by people well versed in each of them and that actually they profess, so the information is not biased.That said, the question is, "does this book delivers what it was intended to?"  I guess so, since I think that the purpose of this book basically to lead us to the understanding of the fact that we are a nation with a shameful religious ignorance that should be addressed efficiently and in a a timely manner, not only by the state, but by ourselves, and establishes the responsibility we as citizens of a multicultural society have towards it. It actually establishes the importance of such knowledge in terms of understanding the international conflicts our nation is involved in and the basics of our neighbors religions that don't necesarily has the same set of beliefs we do, in order to live together in peace with each other.  It does not indicate, by any means that it is the only problem that we have, as someone suggested.  There are other issues to address but there are also people with expertise in those other areas that should rather write and convince the nation upon the need to understand them and to fight for those other causes.  We are voters and have a voice and thus a power that can influence our government in one way or the other.  Therefore, with this information at hand we should get better educated so that we can confront the ignorance that has been taught to us.I think that the book actually tells us that there are many facts, mainly and mostly historical, that we actually ignore about our nation, the way it was founded and the laws that rules it.  All of these facts should be pondered since there are actions been taken upon the misinterpretation of such laws taking advantage of our own ignorance to fulfill such purposes.  We have to open our eyes towards these issues and take action.The title of the book is ironic since it is titled "Religious Literacy..." and basically it points out the contrary, "that we are very illiterate regarding religion."  So what we need to know is answered; We need to know more about every religion professed in our country.  What we doesn't know...  well the previous premise tells us.  We do not know the basics of world religion, therefore we are subject to believe what anyone wants to tell us wether it is true or not.  We actually do not have the basic knowledge to discern the truth from the lie. Buy it and don't expect to get every answer about every religion.  To the contrary, expect to understand the reasons why we should be more Religious literate.

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    Religious Exploration
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2014*

As a graduate student in literature, I chose to focus on Native American contemporary literature and did concurrent studies in religious studies to better understand the deep connections between the literature and the spiritual beliefs of the writers. Thus was born a serious interest in comparative religion. I ordered Prothero's book expecting a survey of the various religions followed in America today. That's not what this book is. While there is fruitful information about various religious thought in the appendixes, Prothero basically uses this text to talk about what Americans believe, what they THINK they know about other religions, and what knowledge they sorely lack, even about their own professed spiritual paths. I found it an interesting read. I followed it up with Catherine Albanese, America, Religion and Religions which approaches American religion through historical thought and change. That text helped clarify for me WHY Americans really don't know much about the beliefs of their own religious paths, how they have changed over the years, why they are different from the paths following the same names of people in other parts of the world. The two books made a great deal of sense to me as companion texts.

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    Religious Literacy
  

*by J***) on Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2010*

The author argues that the bible as literature should be included in public school curricula because the metaphors of the bible are part of our common cultural heritage.  But how that couuld be accomplished without the school curricula becoming proselytizing escapes me.  One look at the new Texas textbooks shows that the Christian right wing just cannot help itself. Their god is the only god, etc etc etc, just like the other 1,000 current religions in the world.  Personally, I grew up Catholic and the Catholic dogma was driven into me week after week as a child.  Knowing nothing else I accepted it till college, where unbiased philosophy classes provided a much broader take on spirituality, as a consequence of which I was able to accept a different philosophy that made sense to me rather than fear-based dogma.  I don't think any religeon can be taught in public schools to minors, period, because it lends itself to abuse, by its very nature.  That said, this is an excellent book for adults to read.

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