Jacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he calls “Pop Atheism.”
Posts Tagged ‘religious literacy’
October 28th, 2010
The wisdom of crowds
posted by Justin ReynoldsThe majority of Americans may not know much about their own religions, but they seem to have a pretty good handle on the intricacies of secularization theory. That, at least, was what I got from looking at the findings of two surveys published this fall.
October 7th, 2010
Consuming religion
posted by Charles GelmanDiane Winston offers up her take on the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey at The Huffington Post.
October 5th, 2010
Surveying religious knowledge
posted by The Editors
Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’s U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, which was widely reported as having demonstrated Americans’ considerable lack thereof, we invited a dozen leading scholars to weigh in on the survey’s significance.
What, we asked, do the results of Pew’s quiz tell us about knowledge—and ignorance—of religion in the United States? And how important is the sort of religious knowledge that the survey tested to American public life?
September 28th, 2010
Pew poll shows Americans lack religious “knowledge”
posted by Sam HanA newly published report from the Pew Forum Religion and Public Life shows that Americans seemingly know very little about religious faiths, including their own.
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