What’s Your Religious Literacy IQ? Quick-can you:

Name the four Gospels?Name a sacred text of Hinduism?Name the holy book of Islam?Name the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament?Name the Ten Commandments?Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism?If you can’t, you’re not alone. We are a religiously illiterate country, yet despite this lack of understanding, politicians continue to main public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed-or misinterpreted- about Religious Literacy by the vast majority of Americans.

‘We have a major civics education problem today,’ says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to treat this, we ought to go back to teaching religious beliefs in the general public schools.

Alongside ‘reading, composing, and arithmetic,’ religious beliefs ought to become the fourth ‘R’ of American education. Many believe that America’s descent into spiritual illiteracy was the doing of activist judges and secularists hell-bent on banishing religious beliefs from the public square. Prothero reveals that is a serious misunderstanding. ‘In among the great ironies of American spiritual history,’ Prothero writes, ‘it was the country’s most fervent people of faith who steered us later on to religious illiteracy. Just how that happened is among the tales this audio has to tell.’ Religious Literacy reveals what every American must know to be able to confront the home and foreign issues facing this nation today.