ABSTRACT
Focusing on tangible manifestations of public Christian pedagogies, they cite various categorical examples related to school calendars, popular images of “god”, architectural practices, and curricular materials. From a historical standpoint, the globalization of Christianity created extensive language contact between colonial languages, Indigenous languages, and immigrant languages. The spread of Christianity in Anglo America raised key questions about humanity, language, literacy, and education. Oftentimes in the US, when folks write about religion, languaging, and literacies and/in education, they are actually writing about some form of Christianity, although there are important exceptions to this characterization. As scholars in the 1970s began to study language, literacy, and religion in communities beyond historically dominant western European traditions, they found that neither the literacy thesis nor the secularization thesis held up to empirical scrutiny. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
