Stephen Prothero Audio & Video

In this lecture Professor Stephen Prothero discusses what religion is and why it still matters in the modern age.

At the dawn of the 21st century, for good and for evil, religion remains the single greatest influence in the world....

The main aim of this course is to cultivate basic literacy in the principal religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

From the author of "American Jesus" comes an essential religious primer and an argument for why religion must become the fourth R of American education.

In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times best-selling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today's heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle...

Are all religions simply different ways up the same mountain? Or is the key to religious tolerance found in better understanding differences?

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of one of the most influential editors of the day...

Since Thomas Jefferson first wrote the Declaration of Independence, America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses....