| Religious literacy: What every American needs to know-and doesn't SR Prothero HarperOne, 2008 | 921 | 2008 |
| American Jesus: How the son of God became a national icon S Prothero Macmillan, 2003 | 455 | 2003 |
| God is not one: The eight rival religions that run the world, and why their differences matter S Prothero Black Inc., 2011 | 432 | 2011 |
| The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott S Prothero Bloomington: Indiana, 1996 | 351 | 1996 |
| Purified by fire: A history of cremation in America S Prothero Univ of California Press, 2001 | 273 | 2001 |
| Asian religions in America: A documentary history TA Tweed Oxford University Press, 1999 | 164 | 1999 |
| On the holy road: the Beat movement as spiritual protest S Prothero Harvard theological review 84 (2), 205-222, 1991 | 107 | 1991 |
| Henry Steel Olcott and" Protestant Buddhism" S Prothero Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63 (2), 281-302, 1995 | 103 | 1995 |
| From spiritualism to theosophy:“Uplifting” a democratic tradition S Prothero Religion and American Culture 3 (2), 197-216, 1993 | 93 | 1993 |
| A nation of religions: The politics of pluralism in multireligious America S Prothero Univ of North Carolina Press, 2007 | 77 | 2007 |
| The encyclopedia of American religious history/1 A-L EL Queen, SR Prothero, GH Shattuck The encyclopedia of American religious history, 2001 | 72 | 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 | 41 | 2016 |
| The American Bible-Whose America Is This?: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation S Prothero Harper Collins, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| Worshiping in Ignorance. S Prothero Chronicle of Higher Education 53 (28), 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| The irony of religious illiteracy in the USA S Prothero, LR Kerby Religious literacy in policy and practice, 55-76, 2015 | 23 | 2015 |
| The White Buddhist S Prothero Tricycle 6, 1, 1996 | 22 | 1996 |
| Religion Matters S Prothero WW Norton & Company, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| 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 | 15 | 2004 |
| Lived religion and the dead: The cremation movement in gilded age America S Prothero Lived religion in America: Toward a history of practice, 92-115, 1997 | 11 | 1997 |
