Last fall, the Pew Research Center issued a report arguing that most Americans know very little about religions. Many scholars and journalists chimed in to call for the importance of education about religion. These claims aren’t new. They’ve been part of an ongoing discourse on religious literacy and interreligious understanding for years now. As I’ve spent the past decade plus involved in interfaith work and the academic study of religion, I share many of these sentiments. For those of us who believe that the diversity of religions and cultures in our society ought to be acknowledged and respected as positive aspects of our society, the call for increased religious literacy seems like a no-brainer. How could increased knowledge about religions do anything but help build and strengthen a multicultural society? Yet, in his recently published essay “The Perils of Pluralism: Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious History” (in After Pluralism...