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    <title>Religious literacy</title>
    <subTitle>what every American needs to know--and doesn't</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Prothero, Stephen R.</namePart>
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    <publisher>HarperOne</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2008</dateIssued>
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    <extent>viii, 372 pages ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>A religious primer serves as an argument for why religion should become a mandatory subject in American public schools, contending that most Americans are not able to identify basic tenets of their faith and that key political challenges can be better met with faith-based resolutions.
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction--
A nation of religious illiterates--
Religion matters--
Eden (what we once knew)--
The fall (how we forgot)--
Redemption (what to do?)--
A dictionary of religious literacy--
Appendix: Religious literacy quiz.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Stephen Prothero.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-279) and index.  </note>
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    <topic>Religious education</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Educación religiosa</topic>
    <geographic>Estados Unidos</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Religions</topic>
    <topic>Dictionaries</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Religión</topic>
    <topic>Diccionarios</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">200.71/073</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780060859527 (paperbacks)</identifier>
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