Thinking at the Limits of Reasonableness and Civic Respect: A Reflection on Christian Hegemony and Secular Privilege

Abstract

Here we offer an accounting of the exchange that has occurred across the pages of this journal over the course of the last two years in Glanzer (2022); Small et al. (2022); Glanzer and Martin (2023); Edwards et al. (2023) and Glanzer (2024). As we don’t see there being any satisfactory conclusion–to the parties engaged and the discourses and communities of scholars we might assume they represent–coming from our jumping into the fray. We choose to instead avail ourselves of the queer practice of arguing to the side of things (Burke & Greteman, 2022).

Keywords:

• Secularisms
• Weak Theology
• Christian Privilege
• Reasonableness

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Notes on contributors

Kevin J. Burke

Kevin J. Burke is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at University of Georgia. [email protected]

Heidi L. Hadley

Heidi Hadley is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University. [email protected]