Religion Matters

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By Stephen Prothero

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A breakout success in its first edition, Religion Matters employs an innovative four-part model for understanding the uniqueness of each religion. It builds religious literacy through storytelling, incorporating stories that animate beliefs and practices and illuminate the internal diversity within religious traditions. Unparalleled tools for student... Read More

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Cultivating religious literacy through diverse stories and dynamic learning tools

with Norton Illumine Ebook, InQuizitive, and Videos

Description

A breakout success in its first edition, Religion Matters employs an innovative four-part model for understanding the uniqueness of each religion. It builds religious literacy through storytelling, incorporating stories that animate beliefs and practices and illuminate the internal diversity within religious traditions.

Unparalleled tools for student learning further build religious literacy and provide opportunities for engagement with the sights and sounds of religious life. In the Second Edition, a new Norton Illumine Ebook promotes active reading through confidence-building Check Your Understanding questions that offer rich, answer-specific feedback; supportive audio pronunciations; and engaging videos.

A new chapter on Yoruba religion enriches and expands the thoughtful coverage of the diversity of religions through an engrossing telling of history and lived experiences of Yoruba practitioners in Africa and the Americas.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781324062141

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Multiple-component retail product

Date Published: 01 July 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Second Edition

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 257.0mm

Weight: 1368g

Pages: 696

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Box Sets Education & Reference Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Stephen Prothero

About the Author

Stephen Prothero is the C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor Religion in America at Boston University. He is the author of God is Not One (2010) and the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy (2007). His books have been published on five continents and translated into seven languages. Prothero has commented on religion on hundreds of radio programs, and on television on The Colbert Report and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as CNN, MSNBC, FOX, PBS, and all the major networks. A regular contributor to USA Today and the Washington Post, he has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, Politico, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. Prothero was the chief academic adviser for the critically acclaimed six-hour WGBH-TV series "God in America." He also worked as a Goldman Sachs Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and as the chief outside writer for CNN's "Belief Blog." His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arthur Vinings Davis Foundation, and the Foundation for Religious Literacy. He received his BA from Yale in American Studies and his PhD in the study of religion from Harvard.