Rise of the Know-Nothings?
(from bbc.co.uk)
A new quiz on religious literacy by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has found that Americans don’t know much about the world’s religions, including their own. Atheists and Agnostics performed the best on the quiz with Jews and Mormons following.
The quiz is perhaps particularly relevant now, with the firestorm surrounding Park 51. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that many Americans know very little about Islam outside of what they see in media–hardly an exhaustive medium.
What the Pew study shows if that they may not know much more about other religions either.
What do you think: would more information about Islam and other religions lead to greater understanding and more tolerance?
Test your own knowledge with questions from the quiz here.
You can listen to the findings in more detail at this PRI podcast.
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