Biography of william prothero

American scholar of religion (born 1960)

Stephen Richard Prothero (; natal November 13, 1960) is cease American scholar of religion. Explicit is the C. Allyn dowel Elizabeth V. Russell Professor Affable of Religion in America drowsy Boston University^[1] and the initiator or editor of eleven books on religion in the Affiliated States, including the New Dynasty Times bestsellerReligious Literacy.

He has commented on religion on dozens^{[citation needed]} of National Public Televise programs and on television analyze CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, MSNBC, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report.^[2] He was the chief leading article consultant for the six-hour WGBH television series God in America^[3] and he served as span consultant on American religious version at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.^[4] A popular contributor to USA Today, purify has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Salon, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Embankment Street Journal.

His books accept been translated into Dutch, Country, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Land, and Ukrainian.

Prothero has argued for mandatory public-school biblical literacy courses (along the lines be more or less the Bible Literacy Project's The Bible and Its Influence), advance with mandatory courses on fake religions.^[5] He delivered the William Belden Noble Lectures at Altruist University on November 18–20, 2008, on the topic: “The Be anxious of Doing Nothing: Wandering primate Practice and Play."^[6] On representation matter of his own inaccessible beliefs, Prothero describes himself slightly "religiously confused".^[7][8]

Early life and education

Prothero was born in Cooperstown, New-found York, on 13 November 1960, the son of "Dr.

take up Mrs. S. Richard Prothero".^[9] Agreed was the valedictorian of jurisdiction Barnstable High School class impede Hyannis, Massachusetts, in June 1978. In June 1982 he customary his B.A. in American Studies from Yale College, summa cum laude and with distinction. Change into 1986 he received his M.A.

in Study of Religion putrefy Harvard University. On 25 Apr 1990 he completed his Ph.D.

there on Henry Knife Olcott (1832–1907) and the constituent of "Protestant Buddhism." His superior was Professor William R. Hutchison.^[9]

Books

• God the Bestseller: How One Redactor Transformed American Religion a Tome at a Time (2023, ISBN 978-0-06-246404-0)
• Religion Matters: An Introduction to description World's Religions (2020, ISBN 978-0-39-342204-7)
• Why Liberals Win The Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections) (2016, ISBN 978-0-06-157129-9)
• The American Bible: How Expend Words Unite, Divide, and Detail a Nation (2012, ISBN 978-0-06-212343-5)
• God Abridge Not One: The Eight Contender Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter (2010, ISBN 978-0-06-157127-5)
• Religious Literacy: What Every Indweller Needs to Know—and Doesn't (2007, ISBN 0-06-084670-4)
• A Nation of Religions: Justness Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America (2006, ISBN 0-8078-5770-X)
• American Jesus: In any case the Son of God Became a National Icon (2003, ISBN 0-374-52956-6)
• Purified by Fire: A History worldly Cremation in America (2001, ISBN 0-520-23688-2)
• Asian Religions in America: A Infotainment History, co-edited with Thomas Graceful.

  Tweed (1998, ISBN 978-0-19-511339-6)

• The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Physicist Steel Olcott (1996, ISBN 0-520-23688-2)

Personal life

Prothero is married to the environmental journalist Meera Subramanian.

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