Stephen R Prothero

The United States is a deeply religious nation, yet many Americans-even the most devout-are shockingly ignorant about religion. Can you: Name the four gospels? Name a sacred text of Hinduism? Name the holy book of Islam? Name the Ten Commandments? Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism? If you can't, you're not alone.

A chronicle of the distinctive "images of Jesus" cherished by the American people, and an incisive account of Jesus' transformation, in Americans' hearts and minds, from crucified Lird to folk hero, from divinity to celebrity.

Religion scholar Prothero asserts that it is time to replace nave hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. A bold polemical response to a generation of misguided scholarship, "God Is Not One" creates a new context for understanding religion in the 21st century and disproves the assumptions about the way the world's religions work.