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Religious Literacy. Download Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero (.ePUB) January 4, 2017 itzAmrit Ebooks. Religious Literacy. Religious Literacy What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t Do you get tongue-tied when asked to name the Twelve Apostles? Do you think Adam’s wife was.
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.
Eye To Eye Tahir Shah Mp3 Download Skull here. 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. 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.
Nov 20, 2006 – Prothero (American Jesus), chair of the religion department at Boston University, begins this valuable primer by noting that religious illiteracy is rampant in the United States, where most Americans, even Christians, cannot name even one of the four Gospels. Such ignorance is perilous because religion 'is the most volatile constituent of culture' and, unfortunately, often 'one of the greatest forces for evil' in the world, he writes. Prothero does more than diagnose the problem; he traces its surprising historic roots ('in one of the great ironies of history, it was the nation's most fervent people of faith who steered Americans down the road to religious illiteracy') and prescribes concrete solutions that address religious education while preserving First Amendment boundaries about religion in the public square. Prothero also offers a dictionary of religious literacy and a quiz for readers to test their knowledge. This book is a must-read not only for educators, clergy and government officials, but for all adults in a culture where, as Prothero puts it, 'faith without understanding is the standard' and 'religious ignorance is bliss.' © Publishers Weekly. By gonzoid I don't see a problem with the teaching of religion in school, as long as it is taught along with other religions and isn't taught in such a biased method that turns into proselytizing to market Christianity over all alternatives.
It's hard to find a person that can actually fairly represent all religions without showing any bias. Teaching 'religion' isn't supposed to be a marketing opportunity. Electric Six I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me Rar.
Christianity isn't the 'best religion' and Islam isn't the worst either. Learning the differences and what the history and dogma of each is very enlightening. By AutumnTwilight I was hoping for a book that was going to be more focused on actually discussing the five major religions of the world plus some.
I got through the prelude (which is understandably a place for the author to lament over the lack of a basic understanding of the religious theories in schools) and part of chapter 1. By that point, I came to the conclusion that this was essentially going to talk about where our education system failed and people's opinions on such failures than on the actual religions themselves. Yes, the dictionary in chapter 6 is nice, but it is not what I expected and definitely not what I wanted to read.
In God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and religion scholar Stephen Prothero argues that persistent attempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlook the distinct problem that each tradition seeks to solve. Delving into the different problems and solutions that Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Confucianism, Yoruba Religion, Daoism and Atheism strive to combat, God is Not One is an indispensable guide to the questions human beings have asked for millennia—and to the disparate paths we are taking to answer them today. Readers of Huston Smith and Karen Armstrong will find much to ponder in God is Not One.