Description: Religion scholar Prothero asserts that it is time to replace nave hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. A bold polemical response to a generation of misguided scholarship, "God Is Not One" creates a new context for understanding religion in the 21st century and disproves the assumptions about the way the world's religions work.
Brief description:
Stephen Prothero is The New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One and an emeritus professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of Time magazine, and he has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, NPR, and all the major networks. He has written and reviewed for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Slate, and other publications. Visit the author at www.stephenprothero.com and follow him at sprothero.bsky.social.
Review Quotes:
"An urgently needed and very nicely done corrective to politically correct nonsense." - Rodney Stark, author of Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Faith
"God is Not One is 2010's must-read for anyone religiously illiterate....Don't know much about the world's faiths? Get a copy now." - The Daily Beast
"This book could well be the most highly readable, accurate, and up-to-date introduction to the world's major religions." - Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University, and author of The Future of Faith
"A very much needed book!" - Miroslav Volf, Professor, Yale University, and author of Exclusion and Embrace
"Stephen Prothero has done it again. This is a powerfully-written, paradigm-shifting book. How religious differences can be a bridge of cooperation rather than a bomb of destruction is one of the most important challenges of our era, and Prothero is as good a guide as you will find." - Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core and author of Acts of Faith
"Provocative, thoughtful, fiercely intelligent and, for both believing and nonbelieving, formal and informal students of religion, a must-read." - Booklist
"enormously timely, thoughtful and balanced" - Los Angeles Times