Because spiritual life and religious participation are widespread human and cultural phenomena, these experiences unsurprisingly find their way into English language arts curriculum, learning, teaching, and teacher education work.

Mary M. Juzwik is Professor in the departments of Teacher Education and English at Michigan State University, USA.

Jennifer C. Stone is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA.

Kevin J. Burke is Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, USA.

Denise Dávila is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Children's Literature in the Language and Literacy Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

01 Contributor Bio

02 Acknowledgements

03 Foreword

04 Introduction: Legacies of Christian Languaging and Literacies in American Education

Mary M. Juzwik, Kevin J. Burke, Jennifer C. Stone, and Denise Dávila

1.0 Section 1

Babel: Conversation, Conflict, and Contested Terrains of Schooling

Jennifer C. Stone, Editor

1.1, Chapter 1, "Real Religion": The Roles of Knowledge, Dialogue, and Sense-Making in Coming to a Faith

Allison Skerrett

1.2, Chapter 2, Recognizing Religion with Preservice Teachers

Heidi Hadley and Will Fassbender

1.3, Chapter 3, Institutional Rituals as Interpersonal Verbal Rituals as Interactional Resources in Classroom Talk

Robert LeBlanc

2.0 Section 2

Purity: Making Present the Stranger

Kevin J. Burke, Editor

2.1, Chapter 4, Myth and Christian Reading Practice in English Teaching

Scott Jarvie

2.2, Chapter 5, "Racism is a God-damned thing": The Implications of Historical and Contemporary Catholic Racism for ELA Classrooms

Mary L. Neville

2.3, Chapter 6, Regulating Language: Language Policies of Early American Christian Missions in Alaska

Jennifer C. Stone, Samantha Mack, Jacob D. Holley-Kline, and Mitchell Hoback

2.4, Chapter 7, A Dream Come True: Young Evangelical Womens' Negotiations of Dreams, Reality, and Ideologies on Pinterest

Bree Straayer-Gannon

3.0 Section 3

Wisdom: Loving God, Loving our Neighbors, and Engaging Religious Pluralism through Literary Response

Mary M. Juzwik, Editor

3.1, Chapter 8, Entering into Literary Communion: Nourishing the Soul and Reclaiming Mystery through Reading

Kati Macaluso

3.2, Chapter 9, "Love your Neighbor": LGBTQ Social Justice and the Youth Canon of WWII Literature

Denise Dávila and Elouise E. Epstein

3.3., Chapter 10, Disrupting Protestant Dominion: Middle School Affirmations of Diverse Religious Images in Community Spaces

Denise Dávila and Allison Volz

4.0 Section 4

Resurrection

Denise Davila, Editor

4.1, Chapter 11, Ambivalence in Two Parts: Legacies of Catholic Languaging

Adam J. Greteman

4.2, Chapter 12, Multilingual, Multimodal, and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Two Young Cuban-American Women's Religious Literacies

Natasha Perez

4.3, Chapter 13, I had to die to live again: A racial storytelling of a Black Male English Educator's Spiritual Literacies and Practices

Lamar L. Johnson

4.4, Chapter 14, (Re)Mystifying Literary Pedagogy

Mary M. Juzwik

Afterword