Many Religions, One God? A Review of Stephen Prothero’s “God Is Not One” - The Rev. Peter Wallace

Many Religions, One God? A Review of Stephen Prothero’s “God Is Not One” - The Rev. Peter Wallace: "God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter, By Stephen Prothero

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A recent Gallup poll indicates that about 95% of Americans believe in God, but that our definitions of who or what God is differ markedly. This may be a good indication that Stephen Prothero is on to something.

Prothero is the author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't, which aroused a good bit of healthy guilt when it was published in 2007. Now the professor of religion at Boston University offers a new book, which is at once vitally helpful and controversial: God Is Not One."