Stephen Prothero

Stephen Richard Prothero ( born November 13, 1960) is an American scholar of religion. Quotes Today young people and adults in both Europe and the United States shuffle from day to day and year to year imprisoned in roles assigned to them by families, friends, and employers. But who am I really? What is my true self? The Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr once wrote, “I go into the Upanishads to ask questions,” and the Upanishads, the midwife birthing early Hinduism out of Vedic religion, ask these questions with even more urgency than Don Quixote or Holden Caulfield. Often ignoring and sometimes attacking the ritual obsessions of the Vedas, Hinduism’s homeless sages preoccupied themselves with philosophy instead. Stephen Prothero, God Is Not One : The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter (2010), Ch, 4 : Hinduism : The Way of Devotion, p. 144 External links Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Yale University alumni