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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Legacies of Christian Languaging and Literacies in American Education
SECTION I Babel: Conversation, Conflict, and Contested Terrains of Schooling
1 โReal Religionโ: The Roles of Knowledge, Dialogue, and Sense-Making in Coming to a Faith
2 Recognizing Religion with Preservice Teachers
3 Institutional Rituals as Interpersonal Verbal Rituals as Interactional Resources in Classroom Talk
SECTION II Purity: Making Present the Stranger
4 Myth and Christian Reading Practice in English Teaching
5 โRacism Is a God-Damned Thingโ: The Implications of Historical and Contemporary Catholic Racism for ELA Classrooms
6 Regulating Language: Language Policies of Early American Christian Missions in Alaska
7 A Dream Come True: Young Evangelical Womenโs Negotiations of Dreams, Reality, and Ideologies on Pinterest
SECTION III Wisdom: Loving God, Loving Our Neighbors, and Engaging Religious Pluralism Through Literary Response
8 Entering Into Literary Communion: Nourishing the Soul and Reclaiming Mystery Through Reading
9 โLove Your Neighborโ: LGBTQ Social Justice and the Youth Canon of WWII Literature
10 Disrupting Protestant Dominion: Middle School Affirmations of Diverse Religious Images in Community Spaces
SECTION IV Resurrection: Contemplative Essays on Navigating Christian Literacies, Teaching, and Pedagogies in the English Language Arts Classroom
11 Ambivalence in Two Parts: Legacies of Catholic Languaging
12 Exploring the Multilingual, Multimodal, and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Two Young Cuban American Womenโs Religious Literacies
13 I Had to Die to Live Again: A Racial Storytelling of a Black Male English Educatorโs Spiritual Literacies and Practices
14 (Re)Mystifying Literary Pedagogy
Afterword: The Gift of Babel
List of Contributors
Index