Name Stephen Prothero Role Professor | Education Harvard University | |
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Awards Quill Award for Religion/spirituality Books Religious Literacy: What Eve, American Jesus: How the Son o, God Is Not One: The Eight Riv, Purified by Fire: A History of, Why Liberals Win the C | ||
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Stephen Prothero is a professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of eight books on religion in America, including the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy.
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He has commented on religion on dozens of National Public Radio programs and on television on CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, MSNBC, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report. He was the chief editorial consultant for the six-hour WGBH television series God in America and he has served as a consultant on U.S. religious history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. A regular contributor to USA Today, he has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Salon.com, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal.
Prothero has argued for mandatory public school Bible literacy courses (along the lines of the Bible Literacy Project's The Bible and Its Influence), along with mandatory courses on world religions. On the matter of his own personal beliefs, Prothero describes himself as "religiously confused".