Stephen Prothero

Stephen Prothero is a professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of numerous books on religion in America.

He has commented on religion on dozens of National Public Radio programs and on television on CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, MSNBC, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report. 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.^{[citation needed]} Prothero describes himself as "religiously confused."

Books

• God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter (2010, ISBN 9780061571275)
• Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - and Doesn't (2007, ISBN 0060846704)
• A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America (2006, ISBN 080785770X)
• American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (2003, ISBN 0374529566)
• Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (2001, ISBN 0520236882)
• The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott (1996, ISBN 0520236882)

Television appearances

• March 19, 2007 - Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart [1]
• June 5, 2010 - After Words [2]
• June 14, 2010 - The Colbert Report [3]
• October 12, 2010 - The Emily Rooney Show [4]
• March 29, 2011 - The Colbert Report

External links

• Stephen Prothero's official site