God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero

On Sale April 20th, 2010!

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-called New Atheists have done nothing to change one thing: our world remains furiously religious. For good and for evil, religion is the single greatest influence in the world. We accept as self-evident that competing economic systems (capitalist or communist) or clashing political parties (Republican or Democratic) propose very different solutions to our planet's problems. So why do we pretend that the world's religious traditions are different paths to the same God? We blur the sharp distinctions between religions at our own peril, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, and it is time to replace naïve hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences.

In Religious Literacy, Prothero demonstrated how little Americans know about their own religious traditions and why the world's religions should be taught in public schools. Now, in God Is Not One, Prothero provides readers with this much-needed content about each of the eight great religions. To claim that all religions are the same is to misunderstand that each attempts to solve a different human problem. For example: Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submission Christianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvation Confucianism: the problem is chaos / the solution is social order Buddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakening Judaism: the problem is exile / the solution is to return to God

Prothero reveals each of these traditions on its own terms to create an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to better understand the big questions human beings have asked for millennia—and the disparate paths we are taking to answer them today. A bold polemical response to a generation of misguided scholarship, God Is Not One creates a new context for understanding religion in the twenty-first century and disproves the assumptions most of us make about the way the world's religions work.

Title: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
Author: Stephen Prothero
ISBN: 9780061571275

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[willlliw]

THIS MAN EMBODES EVERYTHING WRONG WITH AMERICA AND HER EMINENT DOWNFALL!!1

[UT2K4HeroofTime]

Lol @ this joke. Saaaaad..... God is One! Jesus is God! He is the ONLY way!

[darttman07]

Met Mr. Prothero today at CMU and was fortunate enough to have him guest speak in my class and have lunch with him. He is very interesting and I recommend reading his books. Great guy

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, harperonvideo.

[malexandergarcia]

this guy makes a lot of sense, i've already started reading this book.

good job mr. prothero

[kingofkindness]

I feel sorry for his Teachers as well as students not to mention those who waste their time and money to buy and read his book.

Other than that i think he is disparate to make a name of himself so he is stumbling upon whatever he could grasp. Unfortunately religion gives him that easy access to do so.

[CollegeMinistry]

Jesus is not religion. Jesus is the only Way, Truth, and Life. Knowing Jesus is about a relationship with Him. Knowing that He is our only Savior. You can not put Him into a one world religion or mix Him into other religions. Jesus is NOT religion and is not connected to religion. It's about our relationship with Him. It's about spending every day knowing that He is the only thing that matters and He is the only one that saves.

[jackskellingtonsora]

This video reminds me of non-denominational christian "youth" videos in the way that it is meant to make people interested in the material because they generally would not be otherwise.

[SaladofStones]

@seppsters Religion, in a lot of places, isn't something confined to Sunday at 11 AM, but in all elements of our lives and indeed, religion should have a larger effect on a person's life if they do choose to believe in it.

[LouisPlume]

Why do these books titles all have to be a play on Hitchens God is not Great, please be origonal.