Taking Up Secularisms in Literacy Research

Religious literacies have emerged over the last 10 years or so as a more pressing concern for the field. Investigations vary across multicultural, theological, curriculum studies, and queer lenses, among many others. This suggests a maturing subfield of research, one that having established itself might choose to take care to define its interests in increasingly sophisticated ways. This could take many forms, but what I suggest in this brief article is a turn to think about secularisms—as theory and field—as fertile ground for complicating the work of literacies researchers interested in religious literacies as well as religion, broadly conceived, going forward.