Recognizing Christian Hegemony as Broader than Christian Privilege: Critical Religion Scholars Respond to Glanzer (2022)

Abstract

Abstract In this article, members of the Critical Religious Studies in Higher Education (CRSHE) network respond to Glanzer’s Recognizing Christian Complexity and Secular Privilege in Higher Education. We aim for the following goals: making explicit our fundamental assumption about Christian privilege and Christian hegemony, and their relationship to secular privilege; detailing our thinking about definitions, historical influences, social phenomena, and higher education practices related to critical theories of religion; and welcoming scholars from outside the CRSHE network into conversation about the topics of Christian privilege and critical theories of religion, so that we may, in community, move the theories forward.