ABSTRACT
Weaving together scholarship on the secular, secularism, and secularization from multiple disciplines, this chapter forwards the concepts of secular imaginaries and the immanent frame as theoretical frameworks for interpreting the academic writing and rhetorical choices of evangelical Christian undergraduates at a public university. This chapter also describes the qualitative research methods, including interviewing and document analysis, used to study the experiences of evangelical undergraduates at a public university and their writing for college. The choice to rely on self-identification of participants, rather than teacher identification of evangelical students, resulted in a more diverse sample of evangelical undergraduates than is currently represented in the rhetoric and writing scholarship.
