Religious Literacy Audiobook (Free)

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

Name the four Gospels?Name a sacred text message 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 cannot, you’re not alone. We are a religiously illiterate country, yet not surprisingly lack of understanding, politicians continue steadily to main public policy arguments in spiritual rhetoric whose meanings are missed-or misinterpreted- about Spiritual Literacy by almost all Americans.

‘We have a significant civics education problem today,’ says religious beliefs scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to treat this, we have to return to teaching religious beliefs in the public schools.

Alongside ‘reading, composing, 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 religious beliefs from the general public square. Prothero reveals that this is a serious misunderstanding. ‘In among the great ironies of American religious background,’ Prothero writes, ‘it was the nation’s most fervent folks of faith who steered us down the road to spiritual illiteracy. Just how that happened is among the tales this audio has to tell.’ Spiritual Literacy reveals what every American must know to be able to confront the home and foreign problems facing this country today.