STEPHEN PROTHERO, PH.D. - Professor of Religion
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Stephen Prothero is the chairman of the Department of Religion at Boston University. He received his B.A. from Yale College in American Studies and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Study of Religion. A historian of American religions, Professor Prothero specializes in Asian religious traditions in the United States. He has written five books, on topics ranging from cremation in U.S. history to American Buddhism. His most recent book, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), was named one of the top religion books for 2003 by Publishers Weekly. A frequent guest on National Public Radio, he also comments regularly on religion for the Wall Street Journal and Salon, and his work has appeared as well in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, and the Boston Globe.