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AMERICA is one of the very most religious places on earth, but additionally it is a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.

• Only 10 % of American teenagers can name all five major world religions and 15 percent cannot name any.
• Nearly two-thirds of Americans think that the Bible holds the answers to all or most of life's basic questions, yet only 1 / 2 of American adults can name even one of the four gospels & most Americans cannot name the first book of the Bible.

Despite this insufficient basic knowledge, politicians and pundits continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed—or misinterpreted—by almost all Americans."We have a major civic problem on our hands," says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to solution this problem, we have to go back to teaching religion in the general public schools. Alongside "reading, writing, and arithmetic," religion ought to end up being the "Fourth R" of American education.Many think that America's descent into religious illiteracy was the doing of activist judges and secularists hell-bent on banishing religion from the general public square. Prothero reveals that is a profound misunderstanding. "In one of the great ironies of American religious history," Prothero writes, "it was the nation's most fervent folks of faith who steered us down the road to religious illiteracy. Precisely how that happened is one of the stories this book must tell."Prothero avoids the trap of religious relativism by addressing both the core tenets of the world's major religions and the true differences included in this. Complete with a dictionary of the key beliefs, characters, and stories of Christianity, Islam, and other religions, Religious Literacy reveals what every American needs to know in order to confront the domestic and foreign challenges facing this country today.