“Most of us live in our own world rather than the world that brought it into being, so we tend to assume that our problems are unprecedented,” writes Stephen Prothero in his new book "Why Liberals Win ...

(RNS) — A chance encounter at a party led religion professor Stephen Prothero to rediscover the story of Eugene Exman, a longtime book publisher who helped transform American religion. (RNS) — Boston ...

Stephen Prothero is one of America’s leading scholars on the relationship between religion and politics. I have long agreed with him that Americans suffer from a religious illiteracy – and other forms ...

Boston University religious studies professor Stephen Prothero has observed that America has been engaged in some form of the culture wars since shortly after the country’s founding. The author, who ...

The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural, from God and the Virgin Birth to the humbler workings of angels ...

I went to a conference in Venice last month on the rise of strongmen, alt-right populists, and ethnic and religious nationalists in India, Turkey, Western Europe and the United States. An economist ...

The American Bible, Stephen Prothero’s latest assault on the best-seller lists, is a compendium of writings that, Prothero insists, together define Americans as a nation. “Words matter,” he tells us ...

After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a state religious liberty bill, liberals lined up to ravage this "anti-gay" legislation as a "license to discriminate." Indianapolis-based Angie's List said it was ...

Among the sentiments of love of country and national unity, presidential inaugurations also have a religious element. Host Rachel Martin talks with Stephen Prothero, professor of American religion at ...

Stephen Prothero is the chair of the religion department at Boston University. His book *American Jesus* was named one of the best religion books of 2003 by *Publishers Weekly* and one of the year’s ...

After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a state religious liberty bill last Thursday, liberals lined up to ravage this "anti-gay" legislation as a "license to discriminate." Indianapolis-based Angie's ...