Religion Matters
Categories: Books, Religion & Spirituality



Dimensions: 8 x 1 x 10 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0393422047
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393422046
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Print length: 640 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2020
subtitle: Paperback – July 1, 2020
author: Stephen Prothero
review: Editorial Reviews Book Description with Ebook, InQuizitive, and Videos About the Author Stephen Prothero is the C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor Religion in America at Boston University. He is the author of God is Not One (2010) and the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy (2007). His books have been published on five continents and translated into seven languages. Prothero has commented on religion on hundreds of radio programs, and on television on The Colbert Report and The Oprah Winfrey Show , as well as CNN, MSNBC, FOX, PBS, and all the major networks. A regular contributor to USA Today and the Washington Post , he has also written for the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Slate , Salon , Politico , the Los Angeles Times , and the Boston Globe . Prothero was the chief academic adviser for the critically acclaimed six-hour WGBH-TV series "God in America." He also worked as a Goldman Sachs Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and as the chief outside writer for CNN's "Belief Blog." His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arthur Vinings Davis Foundation, and the Foundation for Religious Literacy. He received his BA from Yale in American Studies and his PhD in the study of religion from Harvard.