"It has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true," writes Boston University religion professor Stephen Prothero in the Boston Globe. In fact, many feel-good ...

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, ...

QUESTION: My Presbyterian wife and I (a Unitarian Universalist Christian) have long held the metaphorical view that the world's religions can be viewed as many paths up the same mountain. A few years ...

Professor of Religion at Boston University and author of Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage ...

As a fellow religion scholar I respect Stephen Prothero enormously—he has done so much, throughout his career, to deepen conversations about religion in the United States. But when I read his take on ...

Most U.S. citizens don't know religion. This probably doesn't come as a surprise. But according to Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, it's a significant ...

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