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Edward Ch atmospherelight — This book offers an interesting take on the existence of religious knowledge (or the apparent lack there-of) in society today. Essentially, Prothero has identified religious literacy as an important issue facing the United States today as it plagues all levels of society. In order to correct these issues, the author calls for the creation of a Biblical studies class and a world religion class within the public high school system in order to improve general religious literacy. In making his argument, Prothero does an excellent job explaining the prolific history of religion in the public education system from its inception in the United States well into the late 19th century. He also offers a rather different approach to the decline of religion in public schools. He argues that it was the proponents of orthodox, fundamental, or conservative religions that had religion removed from public education because it was too general and therefore not useful. Later it would be picked up by the secular education supporters to bring us to the situation we find ourselves in today. If the above topic does not interest you, the book is still worth purchasing because of the 83 page religious literacy dictionary that appears at the end of the book. This dictionary can serve as the basis for the creation of a world religion class or simply may be used to increase your own personal knowledge on the topic of religion. Finally, on a more personal note, the plight of Catholic education is following a similar pattern to that of the public school system as chronicled by Prothero. With the national recommended changes for religion curriculum by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, we are moving further away from Catholic literacy and choosing to focus on loving Jesus rather than knowing the Catholic Church. Indeed, we are choosing to simply develop character in the name of Jesus rather than developing a knowledge of being Catholic, what that means, and how that fits into the larger world scheme. If these changes are passed, I am certainly out of a job and likely moving to the public school system to teach comparative religion classes because atleast they will be allowed there. Truly disturbing news.