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Stephen Prothero

Stephen Richard Prothero (; born November 13, 1960) is an American scholar of religion. He is the C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor Emeritus of Religion in America at Boston University and the author or editor of eleven books on religion in the United States, including the ''New York Times'' bestseller ''Religious Literacy''.

Prothero has argued for mandatory public-school biblical literacy courses (along the lines of the Bible Literacy Project's ''The Bible and Its Influence''), along with mandatory courses on world religions. He delivered the William Belden Noble Lectures at Harvard University on November 18–20, 2008, on the topic: “The Work of Doing Nothing: Wandering as Practice and Play." On the matter of his own personal beliefs, Prothero describes himself as "religiously confused". Provided by Wikipedia