"About" religion or "from" religion?

Lisa's post, about Stephen Prothero's critique of religious illiteracy, raises -- as she notes -- a great question:  Is the "Catholic legal theory" project (or, more generally, the "Catholic university" project) more about (a) responding to, and ameliorating, religious illiterarcy (by educating the relevant audiences about the existence and content of the Catholic tradition and perspective), or (b) looking, as Catholics, for the truth and speaking, as Catholics, about and to the world? 

I know that, in my life as a religious-liberty litigator, I often talked in "viewpoint-neutrality / public-forum" terms about the importance of giving the "religious perspective" a "place at the table."  For better or worse, I now have serious doubts about this approach.  I do think, that the point of a Catholic university / law school / legal scholar has to be about more (which is not to say it cannot also be about) responding to the problem Prothero identifies.

On an entirely different front, it strikes me, from the Prothero quotes that Lisa provides, that Prothero is assuming quite a bit about the political implications of increased religious literacy.