{"id":6244,"date":"2016-02-09T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:27:34","slug":"stephen-prothero-in-bu-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/2016\/02\/09\/stephen-prothero-in-bu-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Prothero in BU Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen Prothero\u2019s Gift of Hope to Liberals<\/h1>\n

New book shows why they \u201cwin the culture wars\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
02.09.2016<\/span> By Rich Barlow<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Liberals consistently succeed in making the United States more inclusive, Stephen Prothero argues in his new book. Photo by Vernon Doucette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liberals consistently succeed in making the United States more inclusive, Stephen Prothero argues in his new book. Photo by Vernon Doucette<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Psst\u2014all you liberals. Stephen Prothero has a secret to tell you: you\u2019re winning.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

No, seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Tea Party controlling the US House and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz leading in the Republican presidential race, Prothero\u2019s message may sound nuts. Yet the College of Arts & Sciences professor of religion plumbs history to prove it in his latest book, Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The best-selling author of such books as Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know\u2014and Doesn\u2019t<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World\u2014and Why Their Differences Matter<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Prothero<\/span> summarized his new volume\u2019s argument in a January 29 Washington Post <\/em>column<\/a>.<\/span> The column ran just a few days before President Obama, speaking at a Baltimore mosque, mentioned<\/a>\u00a0a point Prothero made in the Post<\/em> and in the book: Thomas Jefferson, not Obama, was the first president opponents accused of being a closet Muslim.\u00a0 more……..<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Prothero\u2019s Gift of Hope to Liberals New book shows why they \u201cwin the culture wars\u201d 02.09.2016 By Rich Barlow Liberals consistently succeed in making the United States more inclusive, Stephen Prothero argues in his new book. Photo by Vernon Doucette Psst\u2014all you liberals. Stephen Prothero has a secret to tell you: you\u2019re winning.\u00a0 No, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}