| Religious literacy: What every American needs to know-and doesn't SR Prothero HarperOne, 2008 | 938 | 2008 |
| God's new Israel: Religious interpretations of American destiny C Cherry UNC Press Books, 1998 | 594 | 1998 |
| American Jesus: How the son of God became a national icon S Prothero Macmillan, 2003 | 446 | 2003 |
| God is not one: The eight rival religions that run the world, and why their differences matter S Prothero Black Inc., 2011 | 435 | 2011 |
| The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott S Prothero Bloomington: Indiana, 1996 | 366 | 1996 |
| Purified by fire: A history of cremation in America S Prothero Univ of California Press, 2001 | 294 | 2001 |
| Asian religions in America: A documentary history TA Tweed Oxford University Press, 1999 | 184 | 1999 |
| On the holy road: the Beat movement as spiritual protest S Prothero Harvard theological review 84 (2), 205-222, 1991 | 108 | 1991 |
| Henry Steel Olcott and" Protestant Buddhism" S Prothero Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63 (2), 281-302, 1995 | 98 | 1995 |
| From spiritualism to theosophy:“Uplifting” a democratic tradition S Prothero Religion and American Culture 3 (2), 197-216, 1993 | 92 | 1993 |
| A nation of religions: The politics of pluralism in multireligious America S Prothero Univ of North Carolina Press, 2007 | 81 | 2007 |
| The encyclopedia of American religious history/1 A-L EL Queen, SR Prothero, GH Shattuck The encyclopedia of American religious history, 2001 | 57 | 2001 |
| Why liberals win the culture wars (even when they lose elections): the battles that define America from Jefferson's heresies to gay marriage SR Prothero (No Title), 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Worshiping in Ignorance. S Prothero Chronicle of Higher Education 53 (28), 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| The American Bible-Whose America Is This?: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation S Prothero Harper Collins, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| The irony of religious illiteracy in the USA S Prothero, LR Kerby Religious literacy in policy and practice, 55-76, 2015 | 23 | 2015 |
| Religion Matters S Prothero WW Norton & Company, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Encyclopedia of American religious history EL Queen, SR Prothero, GH Shattuck Facts on File, 1970 | 19 | 1970 |
| Hinduphobia and Hinduphilia in US culture SR Prothero The stranger's religion, 13-37, 2004 | 18 | 2004 |
| Belief Unbracketed S Prothero Harvard Divinity Bulletin 32 (2), 10-11, 2004 | 14 | 2004 |
